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032-002188938 Subject Classical studies Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 88942/1

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Add MS 88942/1
Title:
William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Scope & Content:
Talbot's notebooks testify to his wide-ranging intellectual and practical scientific interests, which extended far beyond pioneering photographic research and invention to encompass research in mathematics, optics, astronomy, botany, horticulture, Assyriology, philology, and many associated aven...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Coptic, Cypriot, Danish, Dutch, Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Gaelic, German, German, Middle High, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indo-European languages, Irish, Italian, Latin, Pashto, Persian, Persian, Old, Sanskrit, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Turkish, Ottoman, and Welsh
Date Range:
1778-1877
Extent:
386 folders

2. Add MS 88942/1/239

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
A printed diary ('The Student's Journal'), inscribed (inside front flyleaf) 'W.H.F. Talbot A.D. 1816'. Contains miscellaneous notes, such as the names of places with latitudes/longitudes, co-ordinates of locations in the north of England, a 'Grecian Chronology', and a list of 'Illustrious Greeks'...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816
Extent:
1 notebook (73 folios, 23 pages of text), with 5 loose sheets

3. Add MS 88942/1/4

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Starting with 'Latin trial' this exercise book contains distinct but related entries on left and right pages. Pages on the left contain definitions of characters and places in Greek mythology, notes on history and grammatical rules in Latin and Greek. Pages on the right are short extracts of pri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1811?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 35 pages of text)

4. 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)

5. Add MS 88942/1/6

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
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

6. Add MS 88942/1/65

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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)

7. Add MS 88942/1/66

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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)

8. Add MS 88942/1/3

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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

9. Add MS 88942/1/12

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook served as a draft for sections of Hermes or Classical and Antiquarian Researches, No. 1 (1838). It also includes long drafts for 'The Winged Deities of Etruria' and 'Mantus, the Etruscan Pluto'. Many sections are crossed out and corrected. See also Add MS 88942/1/10. Notebook star...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 15 pages of text)

10. Add MS 88942/1/54

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Add MS 88942/1/54
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Possibly a draft for The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
[1838]-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 15 pages of text)