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31. Add MS 88942/1/138

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/138
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)

32. Add MS 88942/1/9

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/9
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('3', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains drafts for Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Researches, No. 1 (1838), and includes the passages: 'Was Homer acquainted with the art of writing?'; 'On the names of the ancient Roman Months'; and 'On the origin of the names Vesuvius and Soma'. The notebook was started ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 45 pages of text)

33. Add MS 88942/1/13-25

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/13-25
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'S'-'Z'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1836-1839
Extent:
13 notebooks

34. Add MS 88942/1/107

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Add MS 88942/1/107
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Athenaeum Club')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language with some biblical references. There are no references to a specific text. It includes loose notes for Talbot's Assyrian Glossary as well as some general notes in the back. Pages are numbered in pencil. See also the not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
Late 1860s
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 45 pages of text), 10 loose pages of text (10 folios, 15 pages of text)

35. Add MS 88942/1/7

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Add MS 88942/1/7
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('M')
Scope & Content:
This notebook with rough notes is related to notebook 'Q' (Add MS 88942/1/8). It contains an index in the front cover. It starts 'Latin from itself' and continues with wordlists indicating etymological derivations of Latin, Greek and Egyptian. Talbot also refers to his publication Hermes, or Cla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 38 pages of text)

36. Add MS 88942/1/5

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Add MS 88942/1/5
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('W:H:Talbot')
Scope & Content:
Starting with 'Proper names', the exercise book contains notes with definitions of characters of Greek mythology and history and grammatical rules in Latin and Greek on the left pages, and small extracts of printed Greek and Latin verses with written comments in Greek and Latin, as well as trans...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1811?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 43 pages of text)

37. Add MS 88942/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/10
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('3', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook starts with notes 'On the fable of Orpheus and Euridyce - requires that Micalis’ plate should be copied'. Amongst miscellaneous notes on Greek literature and etymology it also contains reflections on the term 'Drama' and other terms related to Greek literature and a short section on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1837?-1838?
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 48 pages of text)

38. Add MS 88942/1/52

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/52
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (''ξ'')
Scope & Content:
Starting ''Syriac letter'', this notebook explores etymological relations between Syriac and Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, German. Notebook started: 26 Mar 1842.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Syriac
Date Range:
1842
Extent:
4 notebook (86 folios, 5 pages of text)

39. Add MS 88942/1/132

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/132
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('χ')
Scope & Content:
This notebook refers to Add MS 88942/1/131. It contains discussions of individual words in Assyrian.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
between 1866-1868
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 45 pages of text)

40. Add MS 88942/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/11
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('4', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This draft for the The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839) contains mainly extracts and extensive notes for the chapter on 'Sybele' and on 'Appendix I. Remarks on the Fable of Pandora', edited and corrected by Talbot. A note inside the front cover suggests that there is a connection to some l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838?-1839?
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 64 pages of text)