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111. Add MS 88942/1/179

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains translation notes on an Assyrian cuneiform text. Many blank pages. On the inside front cover, Talbot has noted the address 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh (a property purchased by Talbot in 1864/65).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
after 1864
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 19 pages of text)

112. Add MS 88942/1/180

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notes on individual lines of an Assyrian cuneiform text, headed 'Notes extracted from the Copy left in Edinburgh'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 7 pages of text)

113. Add MS 88942/1/181

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Belshazzar')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes headed 'Belshazzar'. At the back of the notebook (upside-down) are various notes beginning 'an Ode to Fire'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 7 pages of text)

114. Add MS 88942/1/182

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Title:
Printer's Proof: 'The Legend of Ishtar Descending to Hades' by H. F. Talbot
Scope & Content:
Printer’s proof, originally kept with Add MS 88942/1/175. The printed text is annotated in pencil throughout with corrections and revisions.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1873]
Extent:
5 folios, 9 pages of text

115. Add MS 88942/1/183-195

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks ('A'-'O')
Scope & Content:
A series of mathematical and scientific notebooks, lettered 'A'-'O', from which notebook 'G' is missing. Notebook 'L' (until very recently, also considered missing) is held separately in the British Library Loan Collection. Photography notebooks 'P' (1839) and 'Q' (1840) are held at the National...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817-1871
Extent:
13 notebooks

116. Add MS 88942/1/196

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('aa')
Scope & Content:
This mathematical exercise notebook contains algebraic equations of third and fifth degree, some analyses (integrals, differentials and trigonometric functions) as well as many auxiliary calculations. The beginnings and the end of calculations are not clearly indicated. It might continue with Ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 32 pages of text)

117. Add MS 88942/1/197

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('cc')
Scope & Content:
This mathematical notebook seems to be related to Add MS 88942/1/196 and to be continued by Add MS 88942/1/198. It contains auxiliary calculations, algebraic equations (third degree) and some analyses (integrals and differentials, trigonometric functions). The book seems to have served as a roug...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1836
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 29 pages of text)

118. Add MS 88942/1/198

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('ee')
Scope & Content:
This mathematical exercise book probably continues Add MS 88942/1/197. It contains mainly auxiliary calculations, algebraic equations, and some analyses (integrals and differentials, trigonometric functions, equations of third and fifth degree). There is no clear order in the beginnings and the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1837?
Extent:
1 notebook (88 folios, 176 pages of text)

119. Add MS 88942/1/199

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('kkk')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is possibly related to Add MS 88942/1/198. It contains mainly algebraic equations of third degree. The notes are possibly related to 'Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations of all Degrees having Integer Roots' (1875). Many pages at the back of the notebook have been...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1860s]
Extent:
1 notebook (15 folios, 19 pages of text)

120. Add MS 88942/1/200

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (John Brickdale, 'The Elements of Euclid')
Scope & Content:
The inside front cover of this notebook is inscribed ‘John Brickdale 1778'. It contains a handwritten copy of ‘The Elements of Euclid’ that was presumably used by Talbot in the course of his tuition.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1778
Extent:
1 notebook (59 ff. + 17*, 25*, 26*)