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11. Add MS 88942/1/11

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/11
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('4', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This draft for the The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839) contains mainly extracts and extensive notes for the chapter on 'Sybele' and on 'Appendix I. Remarks on the Fable of Pandora', edited and corrected by Talbot. A note inside the front cover suggests that there is a connection to some l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838?-1839?
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 64 pages of text)

12. Add MS 88942/1/12

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Add MS 88942/1/12
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook served as a draft for sections of Hermes or Classical and Antiquarian Researches, No. 1 (1838). It also includes long drafts for 'The Winged Deities of Etruria' and 'Mantus, the Etruscan Pluto'. Many sections are crossed out and corrected. See also Add MS 88942/1/10. Notebook star...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 15 pages of text)

13. Add MS 88942/1/24

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Add MS 88942/1/24
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Y')
Scope & Content:
This notebook continues notebook Add MS 88942/1/23 and is part of a larger series. It contains transcriptions from Latin literature, notes on the Latin and Greek language and notes on mainly English etymology. Talbot makes numerous references to contemporary journal articles. Notebook started:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)

14. Add MS 88942/1/25

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Add MS 88942/1/25
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Z' - '2' in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook continues on from Add MS 88942/1/24 and is the last notebook in a larger, incomplete series. It contains notes on the etymology of Greek names and places, the etymology of Roman languages and their derivations from Greek and Latin. It also contains notes for English Etymologies, no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1839
Extent:
1 notebook (60 folios, 120 pages of text)

15. Add MS 88942/1/39

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Add MS 88942/1/39
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Dialogues of the Dead')
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek mythology. This early notebook contains a short dialogue between Lycurgus and Solon, and another short dialogue between Polycrates and Amasis. Though inscribed with Talbot's name in the front cover, the notebook was probably written by Lady Elisabeth for Talbot's use. Only a fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1807
Extent:
1 notebook (37 folios, 10 pages of text)

16. Add MS 88942/1/42

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Add MS 88942/1/42
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Greek Metres')
Scope & Content:
The notebook includes a short introduction to metre in Greek poetry, a 'Table of feet as metrically used by the Roman Poets' and 'The nine first odes of Horace according to the Greek Metrical system'. Only a few pages are used. Notebook started: 6 May 1811.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 8 pages of text)

17. Add MS 88942/1/54

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Add MS 88942/1/54
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Possibly a draft for The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
[1838]-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 15 pages of text)

18. Add MS 88942/1/65

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Add MS 88942/1/65
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains mainly references, remarks and addenda for Hermes or Classical and Antiquarian Researches (1838 and 1839), and various mythological notes such as two epsitolae criticae with lists of mythological and historical Greek characters/gods. The loose sheets also contain notes with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1838-1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 6 pages of text), 12 loose sheets (12 folios, 20 pages of text)

19. Add MS 88942/1/66

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Add MS 88942/1/66
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)

20. Add MS 88942/1/239

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Add MS 88942/1/239
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A printed diary ('The Student's Journal'), inscribed (inside front flyleaf) 'W.H.F. Talbot A.D. 1816'. Contains miscellaneous notes, such as the names of places with latitudes/longitudes, co-ordinates of locations in the north of England, a 'Grecian Chronology', and a list of 'Illustrious Greeks'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816
Extent:
1 notebook (73 folios, 23 pages of text), with 5 loose sheets