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1. 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...
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

2. Add MS 88942/1

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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

3. 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)

4. Add MS 88942/1/57

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a list of mainly technical, physical, optical and mathematical vocabulary in German with English translations, notes on Welsh, Erse or Irish, Gaelic (mainly lists of words with English translations, some etymological). It also contains lists of place names in Austria, German...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Gaelic, German, and Welsh
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 28 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/64

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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)

6. Add MS 88942/1/13-25

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Add MS 88942/1/13-25
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'S'-'Z'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1836-1839
Extent:
13 notebooks

7. Add MS 88942/1/19-20

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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

8. Add MS 88942/1/50

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Add MS 88942/1/50
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('called G')
Scope & Content:
This notebook, although 'called G', has not been identified as part of a series. It starts 'Dictionnaire Comparative des langues Tento-Gothiques par H. Meichinger. Franf. 1833 and a French translation', and contains Middle High German words from the Niebelungen Lied, Welsh, Danish, Persian, Gael...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, Egyptian (Ancient), English, Gaelic, German, Middle High, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1834
Extent:
1 notebook (62 folios, 124 pages of text)

9. Add MS 88942/1/21

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Add MS 88942/1/21
Title:
Talbot: Notebook 'V'
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of an incomplete series and follows Add MS 88942/1/20. It includes etymological notes on English, Greek, Latin, Welsh and Hebrew. Notebook started: 7 Aug 1838.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (70 folios, 140 pages of text)