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31. Add MS 88942/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/11
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('4', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This draft for the The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839) contains mainly extracts and extensive notes for the chapter on 'Sybele' and on 'Appendix I. Remarks on the Fable of Pandora', edited and corrected by Talbot. A note inside the front cover suggests that there is a connection to some l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838?-1839?
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 64 pages of text)

32. Add MS 88942/1/112-115

Reference (shelfmark):
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

33. Add MS 88942/1/219

Reference (shelfmark):
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.)

34. Add MS 88942/1/26-37

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/26-37
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'A'-'M'
Scope & Content:
Notebook 'I' from this sequence (which only came to light at a later stage in the cataloguing of Talbot's papers) is Add MS 88942/1/348.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1840-1877
Extent:
12 notebooks

35. Add MS 88942/1/19-20

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/19-20
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'U' and 'U.2'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
2 notebooks

36. Add MS 88942/1/119

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)

37. Add MS 88942/1/22

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/22
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('W')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger, incomplete series. It follows Add MS 88942/1/21 and contains etymological notes on languages deriving from Latin and Greek as well as notes on Greek history and mythology. Notebook started: Oct 1838.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 45 pages of text)

38. Add MS 88942/1/18

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/18
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('T')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger series and succeeds notebook 'S.5' (Add MS 88942/1/17). It contains notes on ancient coins, translations of phrases in Latin and Greek, notes on the etymology of names of gods and places, mainly Greek and Latin, and Greek and Roman history and mythology. Notebo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1837
Extent:
1 notebook (90 folios, 181 pages of text)

39. Add MS 88942/1/24

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/24
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Y')
Scope & Content:
This notebook continues notebook Add MS 88942/1/23 and is part of a larger series. It contains transcriptions from Latin literature, notes on the Latin and Greek language and notes on mainly English etymology. Talbot makes numerous references to contemporary journal articles. Notebook started:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)

40. Add MS 88942/1/27

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/27
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('B')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger, incomplete series and continues on from Add MS 88942/1/26. It contains etymological studies of mainly English (but also Greek, Latin, German and French names) of objects, places and words. The notebook might have served as a preparation for Talbot's English Ety...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1841-1842?
Extent:
1 notebook (114 folios, 229 pages of text)