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51. Add MS 88942/1/119

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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)

52. Add MS 88942/1/135

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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)

53. Add MS 88942/1/135-137

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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

54. Add MS 88942/1/136

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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)

55. Add MS 88942/1/164

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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)

56. Add MS 88942/1/165

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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)

57. Add MS 88942/1/219

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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.)

58. Add MS 88942/1/220

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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)

59. Add MS 88942/1/221

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Botanical notebook listing plants and flowers found during a trip to Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany starting at Villa Hadriana. At the back of the notebook (upside-down), lists of plants found in Italy, Germany and England with detailed descriptions. Notebook started: 11 May 1823.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1823-1826
Extent:
1 notebook (77 folios, 153 pages of text)

60. Add MS 88942/1/222

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Botanical notebook starting 'Environs of Florence' (May 1826) containing lists of plants found in Italy, Germany and France, and at Lacock, up to 1839. Back to front (upside-down) contains further detailed descriptions of plants (also to 1839), probably referring to the lists of plants in the fi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1826-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (68 folios, 79 pages of text)