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1. Add MS 88942/1

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Add MS 88942/1
Title:
William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:
Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1778-1877
Extent:
386 folders

2. Add MS 88942/1/53

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook starting ‘Redundant vowel.’ It contains a few notes on Greek/English, Greek/German and Greek/French etymology. One page at the beginning is entitled 'Nov 30th 1836. Abbotsbury'. Includes brief descriptions of some plates from Monumenti Etruschi by the Italian archaeologist Francesco Ingh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1836
Extent:
1 notebook (17 folios, 7 pages of text)

3. Add MS 88942/1/59

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains miscellaneous notes concerning travels in Europe, drawings of a head in profile, several geometrical figures, notes on Italian etymology, a text in Greek and notes on botany. Front to back (upside-down), the notebook is inscribed 'Lady Feilding Talbot' and contains furthe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Italian
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 36 pages of text)

4. Add MS 88942/1/55

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains etymological notes on specific English terms, but does not seem to be directly related to English Etymologies. Talbot edited the notes with a different pen.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1847?
Extent:
1 notebook (9 folios, 11 pages of text), 1 loose sheet

5. Add MS 88942/1/56

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook starts with the headline 'Part omitted' and contains only two and a half pages of notes on Greek etymology, possibly related to Talbot's English Etymologies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1847?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 3 pages of text)

6. Add MS 88942/1/1

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek grammar containing notes on declinations and six tables on Greek tenses. It also contains three loose sheets with Latin texts similar to the sheet found in notebook Add MS 88942/1/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1809?
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 24 pages of text)

7. Add MS 88942/1/6

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook mainly contains texts in Latin, primarily by Ovid. Some Latin texts carry Greek titles. All texts are dated and are specific exercises Talbot was required to complete (e.g. see the note 'Holiday task, midsummer 1811'). The very first page of the notebook is entitled 'Verses on vari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1811-1812
Extent:
1 notebook (65 folios, 130 pages of text) and 2 loose sheets

8. Add MS 88942/1/63

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook is used on the first page only. It contains notes in pencil on botany: the headline 'Copied' is followed by a list of mainly Greek words and few single words in various modern European languages.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (66 folios, 1 pages of text)

9. Add MS 88942/1/65

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains mainly references, remarks and addenda for Hermes or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (1838 and 1839), and various mythological notes such as two epsitolae criticae with lists of mythological and historical Greek characters/gods. The loose sheets also contain notes with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1838-1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 6 pages of text), 12 loose sheets (12 folios, 20 pages of text)

10. Add MS 88942/1/66

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains miscellaneous notes on Greek etymology, notes on Greek mythological characters and drafts for Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (especially for a chapter on Patera) and The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis, with many crossed out, edited and corrected sections....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 64 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 2 pages of text)