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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 88942 Subject Assyriology

71. Add MS 88942/1/135

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol I')
Scope & Content:
The notebook concerns 'Assyrian & Babylonian inscriptions' and includes notes on Sir Henry Rawlinson's work on various tablets and objects in the British Museum. Talbot attempts to translate by looking at individual words, making comparisons with Latin and Greek, by comparing his ideas to th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
29 Jun 1853
Extent:
1 notebook (39 folios, 48 pages of text)

72. Add MS 88942/1/136

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol II')
Scope & Content:
The notebook considers 'signs whose value is required' and testifies to Talbot's interest in cuneiform based on his knowledge of ancient Persian. He studies the names of Greek gods and sign variation, makes cross linguistic comparisons and looks at grammatical forms. Talbot uses Botta's, Hinck's...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Persian, Old
Date Range:
1853
Extent:
1 notebook (62 folios, 127 pages of text)

73. Add MS 88942/1/137

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (''Miscellanea Assyria Vol. III'')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and continues the previous notebook. Talbot tries to find out which elements he can compare with other languages. In the notebook he gives up Greek and Latin for the comparison and works on Semitic languages while refering to Gesen''s Semiot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 93 pages of text)

74. Add MS 88942/1/138

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('IV')
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 notebook (132 folios, 264 pages of text)

75. Add MS 88942/1/139

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('V')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is the continuation of Add MS 88942/1/138, and contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language. It carefully discusses the meaning of individual words. Upside down (back to front) are notes headed 'Rough Work'. The inside front cover contains an index of words.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 70 pages of text)

76. Add MS 88942/1/140

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('VI')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is the continuation of notebook 'V' (Add MS 88942/1/139) and contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language. It has an index of words discussed. The notebook is incomplete and most pages are blank.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and Hebrew
Date Range:
c 1856
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 29 pages of text)

77. Add MS 88942/1/141

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyrica')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Greek and Assyrian cuneiform text discussing individual Assyrian words and their meaning. It includes a few notes in Arabic, references to Hebrew and to mythology. The inside back cover lists an index of words. Notebook started: Millburn Tower, [Edinburgh], 10 Nov...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1862-[1863]
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 65 pages of text)

78. Add MS 88942/1/142

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook is possibly a continuation of notebook Add MS 88942/1/141. It contains footnotes and corrections and has an index of words in the back cover. Lacock, 10 Nov 1864.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1864
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 63 pages of text)

79. Add MS 88942/1/143

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Additional Matter')
Scope & Content:
Brief notes on an Assyrian text related to the Bellino Cylinder (British Museum). The final pages appear to be notes for a talk. Altogether, the notebook contains only three pages of text. The notebook is not dated.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1865?-1866?
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 5 pages of text)

80. Add MS 88942/1/144

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Bellino')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains a late draft of the second translation of the 'Inscription of Bellino' (1860), dated 16 March 1860 on a later page but started earlier. It contains notes on 'Inscription of Michaux'. Notebook started: 22 Oct 1859.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1859-1860
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 41 pages of text)