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41. Add MS 88942/1/66

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains miscellaneous notes on Greek etymology, notes on Greek mythological characters and drafts for Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (especially for a chapter on Patera) and The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis, with many crossed out, edited and corrected sections....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 64 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 2 pages of text)

42. Add MS 88942/1/67

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Conundrums, Charades, Riddles')
Scope & Content:
This non-attributed notebook contains 100 questions (entitled 'Conundrums') with corresponding answers which incorporate wordplay. For example: '28. Why is a little negro like a white man? Because he is not at all (a tall) black'; and: '17. Why is a little thief like a Roman Emperor? Because he i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (54 folios, 20 pages of text)

43. Add MS 88942/1/87

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook starts 'Sargina sar dannu sar Agani anaku' and contains a line by line transcriptions of the named text. It also contains a draft of 'A Fragment of Ancient Assyrian Mythology' (1872). It includes 6 separate sheets of notes which contain draft glossary entries and random notes on deci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1871?-1872?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 37 pages of text), 6 loose sheets (6 folios, 8 pages of text)

44. Add MS 88942/1/106

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and history, starting ‘The Kings of Assyria’. The notebook does not contain a continuous text but various notes on different words. Talbot compares Assyrian with Hebrew and Greek. He seems to have used the notebook for a few years (at least ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1858-[1862]
Extent:
1 notebook (138 folios, 277 pages of text)

45. Add MS 88942/1/107

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Athenaeum Club')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language with some biblical references. There are no references to a specific text. It includes loose notes for Talbot's Assyrian Glossary as well as some general notes in the back. Pages are numbered in pencil. See also the not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
Late 1860s
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 45 pages of text), 10 loose pages of text (10 folios, 15 pages of text)

46. Add MS 88942/1/108

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes for Part I of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1868). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 notebook (15 folios, 8 pages of text)

47. Add MS 88942/1/109

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Glossary continued')
Scope & Content:
This notebook appears to contain draft material for Part II of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1870). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 15 pages of text)

48. Add MS 88942/1/110

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (‘Deferred in order to be rewritten’)
Scope & Content:
This notebook appears to contain draft material for Part III of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1873). Many pages have been cut from the notebook. See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1870?
Extent:
1 notebook (3 folios, 3 pages of text), 2 loose sheets (2 folios, 2 pages of text)

49. Add MS 88942/1/111

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains material that appears to relate to an uncompleted continuation of Talbot's 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1868-1873). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1872-1873
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 8 pages of text)

50. Add MS 88942/1/120

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Talbot makes references to religious beliefs, and possibly includes extracts from 'Brugsch Geographische Inschriften Altäegyptischer Denkmäler vol. 2' (1865) which he mentions on the first page. The notebook might also be a script of a talk on Egyptian history and geography. The loose notes are...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
between 1864-1873
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 6 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 3 pages of text)