Talbot: Notebook ('Notes on Tablets of Creation Series')
Scope & Content:
Notebook with many pages cut from the front. On the front cover, Talbot has written 'from Delitzsch, Notes on tablets of Creation Series', with 'Birs. N' (struck-through) written beneath. Talbot evidently cut out the pages with the notes of 'Birs. N.' (1860s) and then re-used the notebook for hi...
This notebook contains the introductory remarks to a talk, probably read to the Society of Biblical Archaeology, headed: 'On the Creation tablets, and The first institution of the Sabbath, by HF Talbot, F.R.S. Read 4 January 1876'. It includes draft translation notes. Many pages have been cut f...
The notebook is in the form of an A-Z address book, utilised as a convenient means of recording an A-Z Assyrian lexicon. It includes references to publications and cross-references to other Talbot notebooks, e.g. Add MS 88942/1/133 "Φ". Lacock, 15 September 1868.
The notebook contains notes and comments on Assyrian. Notebook started: 12 Feb 1867. Above the date, Talbot has written '13 Gt. Stuart St.', an address in Edinburgh where he sometimes resided.
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language, and continues Add MS 88942/137. The notebook begins: ‘[cuneiform] is a sign which has various values…’. It attempts decipherment and contains notes on lexicography and biblical history. Talbot translates whole lines ...