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2. Add MS 88942/1/52
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- Add MS 88942/1/52
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook (''ξ'')
- Scope & Content:
- Starting ''Syriac letter'', this notebook explores etymological relations between Syriac and Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Latin, German. Notebook started: 26 Mar 1842.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Arabic, English, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Syriac
- Date Range:
- 1842
- Extent:
- 4 notebook (86 folios, 5 pages of text)
3. Add MS 88942/1/137
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- Add MS 88942/1/137
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook (''Miscellanea Assyria Vol. III'')
- Scope & Content:
- The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and continues the previous notebook. Talbot tries to find out which elements he can compare with other languages. In the notebook he gives up Greek and Latin for the comparison and works on Semitic languages while refering to Gesen''s Semiotic d...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Akkadian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac
- Date Range:
- 1855
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (46 folios, 93 pages of text)
4. Add MS 88942
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- 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 the c...
- 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:
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849 files
5. 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 avenues ...
- 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