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121. Add MS 88942/1/112-115

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Add MS 88942/1/112-115
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks (Athenaeum Club Vol I A-Vol IV D)
Scope & Content:
It was presumably at the Athenaeum Club, to which Talbot was elected in 1824, that the notebook series Add MS 88942/1/112-115 came into being. The series is not characterised by a clear purpose or specific goal. The contents of the notebooks varies, ranging from transliterations, notes on transla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
4 notebooks

122. Add MS 88942/1/113

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Add MS 88942/1/113
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol II B')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian Cuneiform text and Greek. It includes a decipherment of an unpublished text (possibly a drawing) by Layard. On the final page, Talbot has noted 'Contents of this vol'. Notebook started: 21 May 1855 (Athenaeum Club).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 39 pages of text)

123. Add MS 88942/1/114

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Add MS 88942/1/114
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol III C')
Scope & Content:
A note on the last page indicates that pp. 4-22 relate to the Annals of Ashurakhbal. The notebook contains notes on shorter inscriptions of monuments. There are page numbers in pencil. Another important inscription Talbot dealt with was the Bellino Cylinder, named after the German philologist Ka...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 32 pages of text)

124. Add MS 88942/1/115

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Add MS 88942/1/115
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol IV D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook (‘Athenaeum Club, Sept 11th 1856’) contains notes on Assyrian subjects, and begins with the heading 'From Layard's MSS'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and Latin
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 39 pages of text)

125. Add MS 88942/1/116

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Add MS 88942/1/116
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains a draft for a short publication for the Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record (1856). There are also a few random notes on Hebrew.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1855?-1856?
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 59 pages of text)

126. Add MS 88942/1/116-119

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Add MS 88942/1/116-119
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks ('Athenaeum Club')
Scope & Content:
Notebooks 116-119 contain notes and translations of further cuneiform inscriptions from Nimrud and Nineveh in the British Museum. They include shorter notes on other tablets in the British Museum, corrections of Talbot's previous publications, and notes on etymology and religious beliefs. Each no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
[1855]-[1870]
Extent:
4 notebooks

127. Add MS 88942/1/117

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Add MS 88942/1/117
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook, which is not dated, includes notes entitled 'Further remarks on the myth of D[ionysius]' (f. 14), and notes on individual Assyrian texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 64 pages of text)

128. Add MS 88942/1/118

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Add MS 88942/1/118
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform starting 'Obs. on some clay tablets in the B. Musm copied Oct 20, 22'. The notebook contains short notes on tablets from Nineveh. Back to front: starting 'A few notes concerning Niner, the mythic founder of Nineveh and some other prints of the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1860-1866
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 43 pages of text)

129. Add MS 88942/1/119

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Add MS 88942/1/119
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Greek and Assyrian cuneiform text. It includes etymological comment and notes on 'the creation'. The notebook is not dated, but 'Athenaeum Club' is written under Talbot's name on the inside front cover.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1870
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 5 pages of text)

130. Add MS 88942/1/120

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Add MS 88942/1/120
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Talbot makes references to religious beliefs, and possibly includes extracts from 'Brugsch Geographische Inschriften Altäegyptischer Denkmäler vol. 2' (1865) which he mentions on the first page. The notebook might also be a script of a talk on Egyptian history and geography. The loose notes are...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and German
Date Range:
between 1864-1873
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 6 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 3 pages of text)