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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains very few notes on etymology, mainly of Italian words. It is probably from the 1830s when Talbot dedicated a lot of time to etymology.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 5 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains mainly notes on the Greek language, such as definition of words and etymology; but also notes on other languages such as Gaelic, Icelandic and German which Talbot relates to Greek. It also includes notes on Latin, some modern European languages and Persian. Talbot mentions a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Ancient, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 42 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook is used on the first page only. It contains notes in pencil on botany: the headline 'Copied' is followed by a list of mainly Greek words and few single words in various modern European languages.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (66 folios, 1 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains etymological notes on Greek, Latin, German, Danish, Italian, Persian, and lists of words with 'uncertain and doubtful origin'. Back to front (upside-down): lists of population figures for England, Wales, Scotland, and other partly demographical figures and accounts of Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, French, Gaelic, Greek, Ancient, Irish, Italian, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, and Welsh
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 40 pages of text), 23 loose sheets (23 folios, 44 pages of text)

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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)

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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)

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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)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Rough 1')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on the Assyrian glossary and starts with an index of words in the front cover. It summarises from notebooks Talbot used at the Athenaeum Club (see Add MS 88942/1/107, and Add MS 88942/1/114-120). Talbot was elected to the Athenaeum in 1824. This notebook is part of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1866-1868
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 32 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Rough 2')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on the Assyrian glossary and has an index of words in the front cover. It collects notes from notebooks Talbot started at the Athenaeum Club (see Add MS 88942/1/107, and Add MS 88942/1/114-120. The notebook is part of a series of 20 notebooks (Add MS 88942/1/68-86) o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1866-1868
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 27 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Rough No. 3')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on the Assyrian glossary and has an index of words in the front cover. It collects notes from notebooks Talbot started at the Athenaeum Club (see Add MS 88942/1/107, and Add MS 88942/1/114-120). The notebook is part of a series of 20 notebooks (Add MS 88942/1/68-86) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1866-1868
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 29 pages of text)