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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 88942/1/135-137

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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

3. Add MS 88942/1/52

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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)

4. Add MS 88942/1/137

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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 Semiot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 93 pages of text)