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81. Add MS 88942/1/116-119

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Add MS 88942/1/116-119
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks ('Athenaeum Club')
Scope & Content:
Notebooks 116-119 contain notes and translations of further cuneiform inscriptions from Nimrud and Nineveh in the British Museum. They include shorter notes on other tablets in the British Museum, corrections of Talbot's previous publications, and notes on etymology and religious beliefs. Each no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
[1855]-[1870]
Extent:
4 notebooks

82. Add MS 88942/1/117

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Add MS 88942/1/117
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook, which is not dated, includes notes entitled 'Further remarks on the myth of D[ionysius]' (f. 14), and notes on individual Assyrian texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 64 pages of text)

83. Add MS 88942/1/119

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Add MS 88942/1/119
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Greek and Assyrian cuneiform text. It includes etymological comment and notes on 'the creation'. The notebook is not dated, but 'Athenaeum Club' is written under Talbot's name on the inside front cover.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1870
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 5 pages of text)

84. Add MS 88942/1/132

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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)

85. Add MS 88942/1/133

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Add MS 88942/1/133
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Φ')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes and comments on Assyrian. Notebook started: 12 Feb 1867. Above the date, Talbot has written '13 Gt. Stuart St.', an address in Edinburgh where he sometimes resided.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 62 pages of text)

86. Add MS 88942/1/135

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Add MS 88942/1/135
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol I')
Scope & Content:
The notebook concerns 'Assyrian & Babylonian inscriptions' and includes notes on Sir Henry Rawlinson's work on various tablets and objects in the British Museum. Talbot attempts to translate by looking at individual words, making comparisons with Latin and Greek, by comparing his ideas to th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
29 Jun 1853
Extent:
1 notebook (39 folios, 48 pages of text)

87. Add MS 88942/1/135-137

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Add MS 88942/1/135-137
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

88. 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)

89. 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)

90. 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)

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