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11. Add MS 88942/1/2

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Greek Book')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on the Greek alphabet ('Litera apud Graecos sunt viginti quatuor') and on Greek grammar ('Articulus', 'Prima Declinatio', 'Secunda Declinatio', 'Tertia Declinatio', 'Quarta Declinatio', 'Quinta Declinatio' / 'Nominum Simplicum' and 'Prima Declinatio', 'Secunda Declin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Oct [1809]
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 27 pages of text)

12. Add MS 88942/1/42

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Greek Metres')
Scope & Content:
The notebook includes a short introduction to metre in Greek poetry, a 'Table of feet as metrically used by the Roman Poets' and 'The nine first odes of Horace according to the Greek Metrical system'. Only a few pages are used. Notebook started: 6 May 1811.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1811
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 8 pages of text)

13. Add MS 88942/1/8

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Q')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains rough notes. It might be part of an incomplete series and is certainly related to notebook 'M' (Add MS 88942/1/7), which it continues. It contains botanical notes(e.g. lists of Latin plant names) and miscellaneous notes (e.g. lists of names of scholars in various instituti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)

14. Add MS 88942/1/9

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('3', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains drafts for Hermes, or Classical and Antiquarian Researches, No. 1 (1838), and includes the passages: 'Was Homer acquainted with the art of writing?'; 'On the names of the ancient Roman Months'; and 'On the origin of the names Vesuvius and Soma'. The notebook was started ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 45 pages of text)

15. Add MS 88942/1/7

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('M')
Scope & Content:
This notebook with rough notes is related to notebook 'Q' (Add MS 88942/1/8). It contains an index in the front cover. It starts 'Latin from itself' and continues with wordlists indicating etymological derivations of Latin, Greek and Egyptian. Talbot also refers to his publication Hermes, or Cla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 38 pages of text)

16. Add MS 88942/1/5

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('W:H:Talbot')
Scope & Content:
Starting with 'Proper names', the exercise book contains notes with definitions of characters of Greek mythology and history and grammatical rules in Latin and Greek on the left pages, and small extracts of printed Greek and Latin verses with written comments in Greek and Latin, as well as trans...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1811?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 43 pages of text)

17. Add MS 88942/1/10

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('3', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook starts with notes 'On the fable of Orpheus and Euridyce - requires that Micalis’ plate should be copied'. Amongst miscellaneous notes on Greek literature and etymology it also contains reflections on the term 'Drama' and other terms related to Greek literature and a short section on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1837?-1838?
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 48 pages of text)

18. Add MS 88942/1/11

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('4', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This draft for the The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839) contains mainly extracts and extensive notes for the chapter on 'Sybele' and on 'Appendix I. Remarks on the Fable of Pandora', edited and corrected by Talbot. A note inside the front cover suggests that there is a connection to some l...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838?-1839?
Extent:
1 notebook (31 folios, 64 pages of text)

19. Add MS 88942/1/39

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Dialogues of the Dead')
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek mythology. This early notebook contains a short dialogue between Lycurgus and Solon, and another short dialogue between Polycrates and Amasis. Though inscribed with Talbot's name in the front cover, the notebook was probably written by Lady Elisabeth for Talbot's use. Only a fe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1807
Extent:
1 notebook (37 folios, 10 pages of text)

20. Add MS 88942/1/254

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Release in fee of a cottage & premises at Bowden Hill')
Scope & Content:
The notebook begins with the heading: '3 Oct 1825 30£ Release in fee of a cottage of premises at Bowden Hill to Mrs Anna Maria Pettifor'. There follows a legal draft, beginning 'This indenture [...]' between Talbot and Mrs Pettifor. Following this, the text of an unrelated legal document in Fren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1825
Extent:
1 notebook (52 folios, 11 pages of text)