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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942
Title:: The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Scope & Content:: The British Library collection contains notebooks, letters, photographs, diaries, unbound Assyriological and mathematical folios, natural specimens in herbaria, offprints of Talbot’s articles, patents, artefacts and a small selection of books from Talbot’s library. Whilst the covering dates of...
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:: 1732-1952
Extent:: 849 files

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1
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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 88942/1/58
Title:: Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:: This notebook contains notes on Egyptian (including some Hieroglyphics), Greek, Sanskrit, Afghan, Persian (all in Latin script), mainly as lists of words that are partly alphabetical. It also contains some ancient historical notes, probably extracted from a book and a list of books on languages s...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Greek, Ancient, Pashto, Persian, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 2nd quarter of the 19th century
Extent:: 1 notebook (30 folios, 30 pages of text)

Reference (shelfmark):: 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)

Reference (shelfmark):: Add Or 1814
Title:: Aḍhāīdvīpa
Scope & Content:: Aḍhāīdvīpa: Jain cosmic diagram inscribed with a few words of explanation in Sanskrit in Devanāgarī script.Tradition similar to Add. Or. 1812, but with Mount Meru surrounded by the regions arranged in a more concentric manner. In the outer terrestrial region, Tīrthaṁkaras are being worshipped at...
Collection Area:: Oriental Manuscripts
Languages:: Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1830
Extent:: Gouache on cotton cloth. Floral spandrels and border. 112x112cm