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81. Add MS 88942/1/136

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Add MS 88942/1/136
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol II')
Scope & Content:
The notebook considers 'signs whose value is required' and testifies to Talbot's interest in cuneiform based on his knowledge of ancient Persian. He studies the names of Greek gods and sign variation, makes cross linguistic comparisons and looks at grammatical forms. Talbot uses Botta's, Hinck's...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian, Old
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 notebook (62 folios, 127 pages of text)

82. Add MS 88942/1/137

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Add MS 88942/1/137
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (''Miscellanea Assyria Vol. III'')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and continues the previous notebook. Talbot tries to find out which elements he can compare with other languages. In the notebook he gives up Greek and Latin for the comparison and works on Semitic languages while refering to Gesen''s Semiot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 93 pages of text)

83. Add MS 88942/1/138

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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)

84. Add MS 88942/1/140

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Add MS 88942/1/140
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('VI')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is the continuation of notebook 'V' (Add MS 88942/1/139) and contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language. It has an index of words discussed. The notebook is incomplete and most pages are blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and Hebrew
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 29 pages of text)

85. Add MS 88942/1/141

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Add MS 88942/1/141
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyrica')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Greek and Assyrian cuneiform text discussing individual Assyrian words and their meaning. It includes a few notes in Arabic, references to Hebrew and to mythology. The inside back cover lists an index of words. Notebook started: Millburn Tower, [Edinburgh], 10 Nov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1862-[1863]
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 65 pages of text)

86. Add MS 88942/1/142

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Add MS 88942/1/142
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook is possibly a continuation of notebook Add MS 88942/1/141. It contains footnotes and corrections and has an index of words in the back cover. Lacock, 10 Nov 1864.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 63 pages of text)

87. Add MS 88942/1/150

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Add MS 88942/1/150
Title:
Talbot: 'Appendix (to paper entitled Revolt in Heaven)'
Scope & Content:
In manuscript, 'Appendix' to Add MS 88942/1/149 and Add MS 88942/1/151.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1876
Extent:

2 ff.

88. Add MS 88942/1/153

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Add MS 88942/1/153
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook is the continuation of Add MS 88942/1/152, containing notes on Assyrian cuneiform text including words relating to religion. Most of the pages are blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and Hebrew
Date Range:
between 1875-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 8 pages of text)

89. Add MS 88942/1/180

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Add MS 88942/1/180
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notes on individual lines of an Assyrian cuneiform text, headed 'Notes extracted from the Copy left in Edinburgh'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 7 pages of text)

90. Add MS 89142/2/6/1

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Add MS 89142/2/6/1
Title:
Isarael: Press involvement - copy of interview
Scope & Content:
File contains a photocopy (1 page) of an interview given by Swift to 'Maariv' for an Israeli publication. Attached is a note from 'Teresa' [no surname given] of Swift's agent A P Watt, referring to the attached photocopy as an enclosure. The name of the publication is unclear.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Hebrew
Date Range:
Aug 2005
Extent:
1 file, containing 1 item (total 1 sheet + attached note)