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1. Add MS 88942/1/1

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Add MS 88942/1/1
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Notebook on Greek grammar containing notes on declinations and six tables on Greek tenses. It also contains three loose sheets with Latin texts similar to the sheet found in notebook Add MS 88942/1/3.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1809?
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 24 pages of text)

2. Add MS 88942/1/42

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Add MS 88942/1/42
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)

3. Add MS 88942/1/54

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Add MS 88942/1/54
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Possibly a draft for The Antiquity of the Book of Genesis (1839).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
[1838]-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (12 folios, 15 pages of text)

4. Add MS 88942/1/2

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Add MS 88942/1/2
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 Declinatio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
Oct [1809]
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 27 pages of text)

5. Add MS 88942/1/3

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Add MS 88942/1/3
Title:
Talbot: Latin exercises
Scope & Content:
This folder of notes contains a bundle of loose Latin exercises in a wrapper labelled ‘Not of much account.’ Some texts are poems with indications of metres. The folder also contains a few drawings of botanical specimens. There are three more of these loose sheets with Latin exercises in notebook Ad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2 Sep [1809]
Extent:
20 loose sheets

6. Add MS 88942/1/39

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Add MS 88942/1/39
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 few pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1807
Extent:
1 notebook (37 folios, 10 pages of text)

7. Add MS 88942/1/5

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Add MS 88942/1/5
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 translati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1811?
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 43 pages of text)

8. Add MS 88942/1/9

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Add MS 88942/1/9
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 before...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 45 pages of text)

9. Add MS 88942/1/12

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Add MS 88942/1/12
Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook served as a draft for sections of Hermes or Classical and Antiquarian Researches, No. 1 (1838). It also includes long drafts for 'The Winged Deities of Etruria' and 'Mantus, the Etruscan Pluto'. Many sections are crossed out and corrected. See also Add MS 88942/1/10. Notebook started b...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 15 pages of text)

10. Add MS 88942/1/24

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Add MS 88942/1/24
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Y')
Scope & Content:
This notebook continues notebook Add MS 88942/1/23 and is part of a larger series. It contains transcriptions from Latin literature, notes on the Latin and Greek language and notes on mainly English etymology. Talbot makes numerous references to contemporary journal articles. Notebook started: 25 No...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)