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41. Add MS 88942/1/64

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains etymological notes on Greek, Latin, German, Danish, Italian, Persian, and lists of words with 'uncertain and doubtful origin'. Back to front (upside-down): lists of population figures for England, Wales, Scotland, and other partly demographical figures and accounts of Englis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Danish, French, Gaelic, Greek, Ancient, Irish, Italian, Latin, Persian, Sanskrit, and Welsh
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 40 pages of text), 23 loose sheets (23 folios, 44 pages of text)

42. 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)

43. 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)

44. Add MS 88942/1/67

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Conundrums, Charades, Riddles')
Scope & Content:
This non-attributed notebook contains 100 questions (entitled 'Conundrums') with corresponding answers which incorporate wordplay. For example: '28. Why is a little negro like a white man? Because he is not at all (a tall) black'; and: '17. Why is a little thief like a Roman Emperor? Because he i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (54 folios, 20 pages of text)

45. Add MS 88942/1/68-86

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Title:
Talbot: 'Rough' Notebooks 1-20
Scope & Content:
A series of 'Rough' notebooks, numbered 1-20 ('Rough 5' is missing).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1866-[1871]
Extent:
19 notebooks

46. Add MS 88942/1/87

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook starts 'Sargina sar dannu sar Agani anaku' and contains a line by line transcriptions of the named text. It also contains a draft of 'A Fragment of Ancient Assyrian Mythology' (1872). It includes 6 separate sheets of notes which contain draft glossary entries and random notes on deci...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1871?-1872?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 37 pages of text), 6 loose sheets (6 folios, 8 pages of text)

47. Add MS 88942/1/88-105

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'A'-'S'
Scope & Content:
A series of 18 notebooks, lettered 'A'-'S', relating to Talbot, 'Contributions Towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language', Journal of the Royal Asiatic Soiciety (1868-73). The 18 notebooks are a continuation of the series Add MS 88942/1/68-86. Other notebooks with comparable content (includin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1871-1877
Extent:
18 notebooks

48. Add MS 88942/1/106

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and history, starting ‘The Kings of Assyria’. The notebook does not contain a continuous text but various notes on different words. Talbot compares Assyrian with Hebrew and Greek. He seems to have used the notebook for a few years (at least ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1858-[1862]
Extent:
1 notebook (138 folios, 277 pages of text)

49. Add MS 88942/1/107

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Athenaeum Club')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language with some biblical references. There are no references to a specific text. It includes loose notes for Talbot's Assyrian Glossary as well as some general notes in the back. Pages are numbered in pencil. See also the not...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
Late 1860s
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 45 pages of text), 10 loose pages of text (10 folios, 15 pages of text)

50. Add MS 88942/1/108

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes for Part I of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1868). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 notebook (15 folios, 8 pages of text)