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131. Add MS 88942/1/131

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook is in the form of an A-Z address book, utilised as a convenient means of recording an A-Z Assyrian lexicon. It includes references to publications and cross-references to other Talbot notebooks, e.g. Add MS 88942/1/133 "Φ". Lacock, 15 September 1868.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian
Date Range:
15 Sep 1868-before 1877
Extent:
1 notebook (58 folios, 45 pages of text)

132. Add MS 88942/1/132

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('χ')
Scope & Content:
This notebook refers to Add MS 88942/1/131. It contains discussions of individual words in Assyrian.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
between 1866-1868
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 45 pages of text)

133. Add MS 88942/1/133

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Φ')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes and comments on Assyrian. Notebook started: 12 Feb 1867. Above the date, Talbot has written '13 Gt. Stuart St.', an address in Edinburgh where he sometimes resided.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1867
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 62 pages of text)

134. Add MS 88942/1/134

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Ψ')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains further notes on the Assyrian language. Notebook started at Lacock: 27 May 1870.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 65 pages of text)

135. Add MS 88942/1/135

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol I')
Scope & Content:
The notebook concerns 'Assyrian & Babylonian inscriptions' and includes notes on Sir Henry Rawlinson's work on various tablets and objects in the British Museum. Talbot attempts to translate by looking at individual words, making comparisons with Latin and Greek, by comparing his ideas to th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
29 Jun 1853
Extent:
1 notebook (39 folios, 48 pages of text)

136. Add MS 88942/1/136

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol II')
Scope & Content:
The notebook considers 'signs whose value is required' and testifies to Talbot's interest in cuneiform based on his knowledge of ancient Persian. He studies the names of Greek gods and sign variation, makes cross linguistic comparisons and looks at grammatical forms. Talbot uses Botta's, Hinck's...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian, Old
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 notebook (62 folios, 127 pages of text)

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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)

138. Add MS 88942/1/138

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('IV')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language, and continues Add MS 88942/137. The notebook begins: ‘[cuneiform] is a sign which has various values…’. It attempts decipherment and contains notes on lexicography and biblical history. Talbot translates whole lines ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 notebook (132 folios, 264 pages of text)

139. Add MS 88942/1/139

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('V')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is the continuation of Add MS 88942/1/138, and contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language. It carefully discusses the meaning of individual words. Upside down (back to front) are notes headed 'Rough Work'. The inside front cover contains an index of words.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 70 pages of text)

140. Add MS 88942/1/140

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('VI')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is the continuation of notebook 'V' (Add MS 88942/1/139) and contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language. It has an index of words discussed. The notebook is incomplete and most pages are blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and Hebrew
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 29 pages of text)