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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('F')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/30. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English, Latin and Greek etymology but also on Greek mythology. Only the right hand pages are fille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1843
Extent:
1 notebook (48 folios, 72 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('G')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/31. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English and Greek etymology but also on Greek mythology. Only the right hand pages are filled with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('H')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is probably part of a larger series which served as a preparation for English Etymologies and continues notebook Add MS 88942/1/32. It contains notes on English etymology as well as etymological notes on places and Greek gods. The sequence of notebooks appears to continue with Note...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1844?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('J')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is probably the continuation of notebook 'I' (Add MS 88942/1/348) and contains etymological notes on possible derivations and etymological connections between English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek. Talbot also refers to Turkish and Persian and Dutch. In this notebook Ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1845-1858
Extent:
1 notebook (92 folios, 120 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('K' in pencil, may not be in Talbot's hand)
Scope & Content:
This notebook is possibly the continuation of Notebook 'J' (Add MS 88942/1/34). It might be part of a larger series and contains English, Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish and Dutch etymological notes on words, names and places as well as notes on Assyrian names and places. Talbot refers to ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1847-1848
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 33 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('L')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is part of a larger series and probably continues Notebook 'K' (Add MS 88942/1/35). Talbot starts with thoughts about Greek mythology, but then moves on to the etymology of words, names and places, mainly in English and Greek, but also in other languages, mainly German, later also i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1848-1852
Extent:
1 notebook (100 folios, 197 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('M')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is probably the last part of a larger series on etymological notes and probably continues notebook 'L' (Add MS 88942/1/36). If this is the case then Talbot has returned to the series after a break of seven years. The notebook contains notes on languages and etymology. It includes d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1855-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (114 folios, 75 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Journal')
Scope & Content:
The journal contains personal notes by Talbot's mother, together with material from Talbot himself. Talbot's handwriting develops throughout this notebook about day to day activities between 20 October 1806 and 4th August 1811, when Talbot entered Harrow. It includes a list of 'Boys at Rottingde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1806-1811
Extent:
1 notebook (93 folios, 70 pages of text)

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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)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Seven Champions of Christendom / A Poem')
Scope & Content:
This early notebook contains a poem (two pages long) entitled ‘The Seven Champions of Christendom’. Only a few more pages in the notebook are used. They contain miscellaneous notes including a brief word list in French and, upside-down, a brief account list. One page seems to be written by Lady ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 7 pages of text)