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1. Add MS 88942/1/1

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Add MS 88942/1/1
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek grammar containing notes on declinations and six tables on Greek tenses. It also contains three loose sheets with Latin texts similar to the sheet found in notebook Add MS 88942/1/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1809?
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 24 pages of text)

2. Add MS 88942/1/2

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Add MS 88942/1/2
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Greek Book')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on the Greek alphabet ('Litera apud Graecos sunt viginti quatuor') and on Greek grammar ('Articulus', 'Prima Declinatio', 'Secunda Declinatio', 'Tertia Declinatio', 'Quarta Declinatio', 'Quinta Declinatio' / 'Nominum Simplicum' and 'Prima Declinatio', 'Secunda Declin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Oct [1809]
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 27 pages of text)

3. Add MS 88942/1/3

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Add MS 88942/1/3
Title:
Talbot: Latin exercises
Scope & Content:
This folder of notes contains a bundle of loose Latin exercises in a wrapper labelled ‘Not of much account.’ Some texts are poems with indications of metres. The folder also contains a few drawings of botanical specimens. There are three more of these loose sheets with Latin exercises in noteboo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2 Sep [1809]
Extent:
20 loose sheets

4. Add MS 88942/1/13

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Add MS 88942/1/13
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('S.1')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is the first of the etymological series S-Z (Add MS 88942/1/13-25) and at the same time the first of a smaller subseries of five notebooks ('S' series Add MS 88942/1/13-17) within the series 'S-Z'. The notebook starts with notes on Egyptian hieroglyphics and mythology and continue...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1836
Extent:
1 notebook (34 folios, 68 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/41

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Add MS 88942/1/41
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The majority of this exercise book comprises Latin translation and grammar exercises (including hymns and poems) with very few relations to Greek or Roman languages from 1811 and 1812 when Talbot was at Harrow. Judging by the different uses of ink and pencil it seems that Talbot kept editing, ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1811-1815?
Extent:
1 notebook (34 folios, 62 pages of text)

6. 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)

7. Add MS 88942/1/45

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Add MS 88942/1/45
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Liguria')
Scope & Content:
Notes by Talbot's half sister Horatia Feilding all taken in Italian in Liguria in Genova in 1824, with translations (e.g. from Voltaire) into Italian and extracts of literary, philosophical, historical, scientific and biblical texts. In the back cover a note below a translation 'tradottto da [?]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1824
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 41 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/57

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Add MS 88942/1/57
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)

9. Add MS 88942/1/58

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Add MS 88942/1/58
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Egyptian (including some Hieroglyphics), Greek, Sanskrit, Afghan, Persian (all in Latin script), mainly as lists of words that are partly alphabetical. It also contains some ancient historical notes, probably extracted from a book and a list of books on languages s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Greek, Ancient, Pashto, Persian, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 30 pages of text)

10. Add MS 88942/1/60

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Add MS 88942/1/60
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook entitled ﻋﺭﺐ (Arab) starts 'Lillahi al hhamed u al minath' and contains mainly notes in Arabic (in English script with very few Arabic characters) and a few notes in Persian. Back to front (upside-down): notes (vocabulary) on and translation of 'The Garden and the Nightingale' (fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, and Swedish
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (39 folios, 28 pages of text), 17 loose sheets (17 folios, 33 pages of text)