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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/115
Title:: Talbot: Notebook ('Vol IV D')
Scope & Content:: This notebook (‘Athenaeum Club, Sept 11th 1856’) contains notes on Assyrian subjects, and begins with the heading 'From Layard's MSS'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian and Latin
Date Range:: 1856
Extent:: 1 notebook (20 folios, 39 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: 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)

Reference (shelfmark):: 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)

Reference (shelfmark):: 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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/164
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: The notebook consists of a few pages filled with a transcription of a cuneiform text on the right with footnotes and etymological and philological annotations on the left. See also Add MS 88942/1/115, Add MS 88942/1/138, and Add MS 88942/1/165.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:: 1856?
Extent:: 1 notebook (26 folios, 12 pages of text)

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