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51. Add MS 88942/1/109

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Add MS 88942/1/109
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Glossary continued')
Scope & Content:
This notebook appears to contain draft material for Part II of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1870). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 15 pages of text)

52. Add MS 88942/1/110

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Add MS 88942/1/110
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (‘Deferred in order to be rewritten’)
Scope & Content:
This notebook appears to contain draft material for Part III of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1873). Many pages have been cut from the notebook. See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1870?
Extent:
1 notebook (3 folios, 3 pages of text), 2 loose sheets (2 folios, 2 pages of text)

53. Add MS 88942/1/111

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Add MS 88942/1/111
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains material that appears to relate to an uncompleted continuation of Talbot's 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1868-1873). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1872-1873
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 8 pages of text)

54. 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

55. 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

56. 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)

57. Add MS 88942/1/121

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Add MS 88942/1/121
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook begins with the heading: 'The fight betwn Bel & the Dragon'. It contains a draft introduction and translation notes. There are three Talbot notebooks related to Bel and the Dragon, from the extended book of Daniel, now known to be part of the Babylonian epic of creation (see al...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (13 folios, 18 pages of text)

58. Add MS 88942/1/122

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Add MS 88942/1/122
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Bel & Dragon')
Scope & Content:
Notes for 'Bel and the Dragon' (1877). The notebook probably continues Add MS 88942/1/121 and continues with Add MS 88942/1/123. Notebook started: 11 Jun [1876].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 3 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

59. Add MS 88942/1/123

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Add MS 88942/1/123
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Notes and Observations')
Scope & Content:
Line by line notes and commentary on 'Bel and the Dragon' (1877), with notes on 'Column I' at the front of the book and notes on 'Col II' at the back of the notebook. With three loose sheets of related notes, dated 19 and 20 June 1876 (Lacock Abbey). The notebook is a continuation of Add MS 88942...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (15 folios, 15 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 5 pages of text)

60. Add MS 88942/1/124

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Add MS 88942/1/124
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Notice of a new work on Assyriology by F.D.')
Scope & Content:
Refers to Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrische Lesestücke (Leipzig, 1876), and includes notes on 'Tablet 42'. Talbot referred to Delitzsch’s publication in several notebooks (Add MS 88942/1/124-127). See also Add MS 88942/1/176-177.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 29 pages of text)