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51. Add MS 88942/1/115

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol IV D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook (‘Athenaeum Club, Sept 11th 1856’) contains notes on Assyrian subjects, and begins with the heading 'From Layard's MSS'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and Latin
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 39 pages of text)

52. Add MS 88942/1/116

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains a draft for a short publication for the Journal of Sacred Literature and Biblical Record (1856). There are also a few random notes on Hebrew.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1855?-1856?
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 59 pages of text)

53. Add MS 88942/1/117

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook, which is not dated, includes notes entitled 'Further remarks on the myth of D[ionysius]' (f. 14), and notes on individual Assyrian texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
c 1860
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 64 pages of text)

54. Add MS 88942/1/118

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform starting 'Obs. on some clay tablets in the B. Musm copied Oct 20, 22'. The notebook contains short notes on tablets from Nineveh. Back to front: starting 'A few notes concerning Niner, the mythic founder of Nineveh and some other prints of the c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1860-1866
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 43 pages of text)

55. Add MS 88942/1/119

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Greek and Assyrian cuneiform text. It includes etymological comment and notes on 'the creation'. The notebook is not dated, but 'Athenaeum Club' is written under Talbot's name on the inside front cover.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1870
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 5 pages of text)

56. Add MS 88942/1/120

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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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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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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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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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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)