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21. Add MS 88942/1/51

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('D. P.')
Scope & Content:
Inscribed ‘D. P.’ on front pastedown. Starts: ‘Detached passages Oct 23rd/38.’ The notebook contains few notes on mythology and philology, possibly connected to Hermes and possibly serving as notes for a talk. Only a few pages are used. Notebook started: 23 Oct 1838.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 7 pages of text)

22. Add MS 88942/1/135-137

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks (''Miscellanea Assyria'')
Scope & Content:
A series of three notebooks.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Old, and Syriac
Date Range:
1853-1855
Extent:
3 notebooks

23. Add MS 88942/1/58

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Egyptian (including some Hieroglyphics), Greek, Sanskrit, Afghan, Persian (all in Latin script), mainly as lists of words that are partly alphabetical. It also contains some ancient historical notes, probably extracted from a book and a list of books on languages s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Greek, Ancient, Pashto, Persian, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 30 pages of text)

24. Add MS 88942/1/62

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains mainly notes on the Greek language, such as definition of words and etymology; but also notes on other languages such as Gaelic, Icelandic and German which Talbot relates to Greek. It also includes notes on Latin, some modern European languages and Persian. Talbot mentions a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Ancient, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 42 pages of text)

25. Add MS 88942/1/64

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains etymological notes on Greek, Latin, German, Danish, Italian, Persian, and lists of words with 'uncertain and doubtful origin'. Back to front (upside-down): lists of population figures for England, Wales, Scotland, and other partly demographical figures and accounts of Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, French, Gaelic, Greek, Ancient, Irish, Italian, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, and Welsh
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 40 pages of text), 23 loose sheets (23 folios, 44 pages of text)

26. Add MS 88942/1/154

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Begining with the heading 'On the Cypriote inscriptions', the notebook contains partly drafts of a translation from Assyrian into English, and partly notes in Greek and German. Talbot refers to a number of publications on the topic. Notebook started: 5 Dec 1876, Bournemouth.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1876-[1877]
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 21 pages of text)

27. Add MS 88942/1/42

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Greek Metres')
Scope & Content:
The notebook includes a short introduction to metre in Greek poetry, a 'Table of feet as metrically used by the Roman Poets' and 'The nine first odes of Horace according to the Greek Metrical system'. Only a few pages are used. Notebook started: 6 May 1811.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 8 pages of text)

28. Add MS 88942/1/165

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('U.145')
Scope & Content:
The notebook consists of notes on cuneiform and transcribed texts, possibly from tablets, on the right page, with footnotes and etymological and philological annotations on the left. The text consists of parts of an Iguvinic inscription in Umbrian and Latin. Talbot might have learned about the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1856?
Extent:
1 notebook (26 folios, 46 pages of text)

29. Add MS 88942/1/8

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Q')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains rough notes. It might be part of an incomplete series and is certainly related to notebook 'M' (Add MS 88942/1/7), which it continues. It contains botanical notes(e.g. lists of Latin plant names) and miscellaneous notes (e.g. lists of names of scholars in various instituti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)

30. Add MS 88942/1/138

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('IV')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language, and continues Add MS 88942/137. The notebook begins: ‘[cuneiform] is a sign which has various values…’. It attempts decipherment and contains notes on lexicography and biblical history. Talbot translates whole lines ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 notebook (132 folios, 264 pages of text)