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1. Add MS 88942/1

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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 88942/1/221

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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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. Add MS 88942/1/4

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Starting with 'Latin trial' this exercise book contains distinct but related entries on left and right pages. Pages on the left contain definitions of characters and places in Greek mythology, notes on history and grammatical rules in Latin and Greek. Pages on the right are short extracts of pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1811?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 35 pages of text)

6. Add MS 88942/1/55

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains etymological notes on specific English terms, but does not seem to be directly related to English Etymologies. Talbot edited the notes with a different pen.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1847?
Extent:
1 notebook (9 folios, 11 pages of text), 1 loose sheet

7. Add MS 88942/1/272

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Memoranda')
Scope & Content:
This notebook (entitled 'Memoranda') comprises, in the main, notes on three topics: horticultural matters (such as plants ordered, and 'Garden Memoranda'); notes on experiments concerning 'galvanism'; and various notes concerning photography. It also includes occasional notes interspersed on oth...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
1838-1840
Extent:
1 notebook (36 folios, 71 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/1

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek grammar containing notes on declinations and six tables on Greek tenses. It also contains three loose sheets with Latin texts similar to the sheet found in notebook Add MS 88942/1/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1809?
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 24 pages of text)

9. Add MS 88942/1/6

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook mainly contains texts in Latin, primarily by Ovid. Some Latin texts carry Greek titles. All texts are dated and are specific exercises Talbot was required to complete (e.g. see the note 'Holiday task, midsummer 1811'). The very first page of the notebook is entitled 'Verses on vari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1811-1812
Extent:
1 notebook (65 folios, 130 pages of text) and 2 loose sheets

10. Add MS 88942/1/65

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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)