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11. Add MS 88942/1/11

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('4', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This draft for the The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839) contains mainly extracts and extensive notes for the chapter on 'Sybele' and on 'Appendix I. Remarks on the Fable of Pandora', edited and corrected by Talbot. A note inside the front cover suggests that there is a connection to some l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838?-1839?
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 64 pages of text)

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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)

13. Add MS 88942/1/13-25

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'S'-'Z'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Welsh
Date Range:
1836-1839
Extent:
13 notebooks

14. Add MS 88942/1/26-37

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'A'-'M'
Scope & Content:
Notebook 'I' from this sequence (which only came to light at a later stage in the cataloguing of Talbot's papers) is Add MS 88942/1/348.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1840-1877
Extent:
12 notebooks

15. Add MS 88942/1/38

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Journal')
Scope & Content:
The journal contains personal notes by Talbot's mother, together with material from Talbot himself. Talbot's handwriting develops throughout this notebook about day to day activities between 20 October 1806 and 4th August 1811, when Talbot entered Harrow. It includes a list of 'Boys at Rottingde...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1806-1811
Extent:
1 notebook (93 folios, 70 pages of text)

16. Add MS 88942/1/39

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Dialogues of the Dead')
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek mythology. This early notebook contains a short dialogue between Lycurgus and Solon, and another short dialogue between Polycrates and Amasis. Though inscribed with Talbot's name in the front cover, the notebook was probably written by Lady Elisabeth for Talbot's use. Only a fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1807
Extent:
1 notebook (37 folios, 10 pages of text)

17. Add MS 88942/1/40

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Seven Champions of Christendom / A Poem')
Scope & Content:
This early notebook contains a poem (two pages long) entitled ‘The Seven Champions of Christendom’. Only a few more pages in the notebook are used. They contain miscellaneous notes including a brief word list in French and, upside-down, a brief account list. One page seems to be written by Lady ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 7 pages of text)

18. Add MS 88942/1/41

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The majority of this exercise book comprises Latin translation and grammar exercises (including hymns and poems) with very few relations to Greek or Roman languages from 1811 and 1812 when Talbot was at Harrow. Judging by the different uses of ink and pencil it seems that Talbot kept editing, ma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1811-1815?
Extent:
1 notebook (34 folios, 62 pages of text)

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Greek Metres')
Scope & Content:
The notebook includes a short introduction to metre in Greek poetry, a 'Table of feet as metrically used by the Roman Poets' and 'The nine first odes of Horace according to the Greek Metrical system'. Only a few pages are used. Notebook started: 6 May 1811.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 8 pages of text)

20. Add MS 88942/1/43

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Inscribed 'ETF', this notebook contains notes by Talbot's mother Elisabeth Theresa Feilding. It contains: mathematical notes like 'Transverse axis of an Ellipses or Hyperbola'; definitions of optical, mathematical and chemical terminology in English and French; definitions and translations of mo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 notebook (92 folios, 101 pages of text)