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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 88942/1/259

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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.)

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 88942/1/48

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on the etymology of English, German, Italian and French words, names and places. Notebook started: 1 Mar 1832.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1832
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 44 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/49

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on English, French, German, and Italian Etymology. Only few pages are used. Notebook started: Aug 1833.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1833
Extent:
1 notebook (42 folios, 11 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 88942/1/41

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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)

8. Add MS 88942/1/47

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook starts 'Analogy is the great guiding principle of etymological researches' and contains etymological notes in mainly English, French, Italian, German, Greek, and Persian. Notebook started: 25 Nov 1831.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Persian
Date Range:
1831
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 62 pages of text)

9. 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)

10. Add MS 88942/1/64

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains etymological notes on Greek, Latin, German, Danish, Italian, Persian, and lists of words with 'uncertain and doubtful origin'. Back to front (upside-down): lists of population figures for England, Wales, Scotland, and other partly demographical figures and accounts of Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, French, Gaelic, Greek, Ancient, Irish, Italian, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, and Welsh
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 40 pages of text), 23 loose sheets (23 folios, 44 pages of text)