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.
This notebook mainly contains texts in Latin, primarily by Ovid. Some Latin texts carry Greek titles. All texts are dated and are specific exercises Talbot was required to complete (e.g. see the note 'Holiday task, midsummer 1811'). The very first page of the notebook is entitled 'Verses on vari...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1811-1812
Extent:
1 notebook (65 folios, 130 pages of text) and 2 loose sheets
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...
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.