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91. Add MS 88942/1/157

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Add MS 88942/1/157
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Esarhaddon - A')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a draft translation, probably of the later version of Esarhaddon. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681 – 669 BC). See also Add MS 88942/1/158-160.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1875-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 45 pages of text)

92. Add MS 88942/1/158

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Add MS 88942/1/158
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Esarhaddon - book 2')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a draft translation, probably of the later version of Esarhaddon. It is the continuation of Add MS 88942/1/157. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681 – 669 BC).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1875-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 15 pages of text)

93. Add MS 88942/1/159

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Add MS 88942/1/159
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Inscription of Esarhaddon')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains what is probably Talbot's final draft of his translation of the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681–669 BC), to which Talbot dedicated much of his time from the mid 1850s. For further translation drafts, see Add MS 88942/1/156-158, and Add MS 88942/1/160.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1875-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 17 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

94. Add MS 88942/1/160

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Add MS 88942/1/160
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a translation entitled 'The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon' - for an earlier draft, see Add MS 88942/1/157. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681–669 BC), to which Talbot dedicated much of his time from the mid 1850s onwards. For f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1875-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (27 folios, 28 pages of text), 5 loose sheets (5 folios, 5 pages of text)

95. Add MS 88942/1/162

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Add MS 88942/1/162
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Assyrian Notes II')
Scope & Content:
Notebook starts 'The god of pestilence' and contains commentaries on texts published by George Smith. Greek fables are compared with Assyrian. Notebook started: 30 Nov 1875.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1875
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 5 pages of text)

96. Add MS 88942/1/163

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Add MS 88942/1/163
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('T')
Scope & Content:
The notebook (identified as 'T' written in pencil on the inside front cover) contains lexicographical notes on Assyrian words. It is probably the last notebook that Talbot began before his death. Many blank pages. Notebook started: 1 Sep 1877, Lacock.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 3 pages of text)

97. Add MS 88942/1/164

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Add MS 88942/1/164
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook consists of a few pages filled with a transcription of a cuneiform text on the right with footnotes and etymological and philological annotations on the left. See also Add MS 88942/1/115, Add MS 88942/1/138, and Add MS 88942/1/165.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1856?
Extent:
1 notebook (26 folios, 12 pages of text)

98. Add MS 88942/1/167

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Add MS 88942/1/167
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Legend of Ishtar decending to Hades')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a line by line translation of 'The Legend of Ishtar descending to Hades'. It is probably a draft for a later publication. Notebook started: 14 Mar 1873.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 57 pages of text)

99. Add MS 88942/1/168

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Add MS 88942/1/168
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Pl 43 - Observns')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes from a book by Friedrich Delitzsch. It also contains early drafts of 'Ishtar and Isdubar' (1877).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 notebook (44 folios, 20 pages of text)

100. Add MS 88942/1/169

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Add MS 88942/1/169
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Defence of a Magistrate, falsely accused')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a draft of a translation of a tablet in the British Museum. It also includes two pages of notes at the back of the notebook on the first public announcement of Talbot's photographic experiments (by Michael Faraday, at the Royal Institution, 1839). Notebook started: 3 May 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1877
Extent:
1 notebook (6 folios, 12 pages of text)