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21. Add MS 88942/1/64

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Add MS 88942/1/64
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)

22. Add MS 88942/1/65

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Add MS 88942/1/65
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains mainly references, remarks and addenda for Hermes or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (1838 and 1839), and various mythological notes such as two epsitolae criticae with lists of mythological and historical Greek characters/gods. The loose sheets also contain notes with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1838-1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 6 pages of text), 12 loose sheets (12 folios, 20 pages of text)

23. Add MS 88942/1/66

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Add MS 88942/1/66
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains miscellaneous notes on Greek etymology, notes on Greek mythological characters and drafts for Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (especially for a chapter on Patera) and The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis, with many crossed out, edited and corrected sections....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 64 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 2 pages of text)

24. Add MS 88942/1/112-115

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Add MS 88942/1/112-115
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks (Athenaeum Club Vol I A-Vol IV D)
Scope & Content:
It was presumably at the Athenaeum Club, to which Talbot was elected in 1824, that the notebook series Add MS 88942/1/112-115 came into being. The series is not characterised by a clear purpose or specific goal. The contents of the notebooks varies, ranging from transliterations, notes on transla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
4 notebooks

25. 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

26. 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

27. Add MS 88942/1/164

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)

28. Add MS 88942/1/165

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Add MS 88942/1/165
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('U.145')
Scope & Content:
The notebook consists of notes on cuneiform and transcribed texts, possibly from tablets, on the right page, with footnotes and etymological and philological annotations on the left. The text consists of parts of an Iguvinic inscription in Umbrian and Latin. Talbot might have learned about the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1856?
Extent:
1 notebook (26 folios, 46 pages of text)

29. Add MS 88942/1/219

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Add MS 88942/1/219
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Plantarum rariorum stationes à W.H.F.T. annis 1814, 1815, 1816, observata.-')
Scope & Content:
Five notebooks list botanical specimens Talbot identified during his travels in Britain and on the continent (Add MS 88942/1/219-223). These notebooks are complemented by Herbaria amongst his papers at the British Library. From an early age, Talbot was keenly interested in plants. As a boy, he ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1814-1816
Extent:
1 notebook (25 ff.)

30. Add MS 88942/1/220

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Add MS 88942/1/220
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains detailed descriptions of plants and a list of several places in Europe Talbot travelled to between 1821 and 1823. Back to front (upside down): lists of plants Talbot found during travels mainly in France, Germany and Austria in 1822 and 1823. The notebook also contains a v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1817-1823
Extent:
1 notebook (73 folios, 142 pages of text)