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41. 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)

42. 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)

43. 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)

44. Add MS 88942/1/109

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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)

45. Add MS 88942/1/110

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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)

46. 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)

47. Add MS 88942/1/112

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol I A')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains draft translations of cuneiform inscriptions from Nimrud and Nineveh in the British Museum. Talbot transliterates Assyrian into English script and copies the signs. In addition to the translations, there are further notes on the right hand page as well as more notes and co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 48 pages of text)

48. Add MS 88942/1/112-115

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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

49. Add MS 88942/1/113

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol II B')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian Cuneiform text and Greek. It includes a decipherment of an unpublished text (possibly a drawing) by Layard. On the final page, Talbot has noted 'Contents of this vol'. Notebook started: 21 May 1855 (Athenaeum Club).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 39 pages of text)

50. Add MS 88942/1/114

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol III C')
Scope & Content:
A note on the last page indicates that pp. 4-22 relate to the Annals of Ashurakhbal. The notebook contains notes on shorter inscriptions of monuments. There are page numbers in pencil. Another important inscription Talbot dealt with was the Bellino Cylinder, named after the German philologist Ka...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 32 pages of text)