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1. Add MS 88942/1

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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 88942/1/13

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('S.1')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is the first of the etymological series S-Z (Add MS 88942/1/13-25) and at the same time the first of a smaller subseries of five notebooks ('S' series Add MS 88942/1/13-17) within the series 'S-Z'. The notebook starts with notes on Egyptian hieroglyphics and mythology and continue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1836
Extent:
1 notebook (34 folios, 68 pages of text)

3. Add MS 88942/1/13-17

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'S.1'-'S.5'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1836-1837
Extent:
5 notebooks

4. Add MS 88942/1/13-25

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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

5. Add MS 88942/1/41

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The majority of this exercise book comprises Latin translation and grammar exercises (including hymns and poems) with very few relations to Greek or Roman languages from 1811 and 1812 when Talbot was at Harrow. Judging by the different uses of ink and pencil it seems that Talbot kept editing, ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1811-1815?
Extent:
1 notebook (34 folios, 62 pages of text)

6. Add MS 88942/1/45

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Liguria')
Scope & Content:
Notes by Talbot's half sister Horatia Feilding all taken in Italian in Liguria in Genova in 1824, with translations (e.g. from Voltaire) into Italian and extracts of literary, philosophical, historical, scientific and biblical texts. In the back cover a note below a translation 'tradottto da [?]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1824
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 41 pages of text)

7. 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)

8. Add MS 88942/1/259

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Lists expenses from 17 May 1827- 10 June 1828, in Italian. With the notebook are six loose sheets (ff. i-vi), receipts from 1827 and 1827, that were originally kept in the inside pocket of the notebook. The notebook entries are not in Talbot's hand. Notebook started: 17 Mar 1827.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1827-1828
Extent:
1 notebook (vi + 31 ff.)