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1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. Add MS 88942/1/146

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Egyptian Archaeology')
Scope & Content:
Front to back: The front part of the notebook contains only three lines on 'Egyptian Archaeology' (1856), referring to the Lotus flower. The back-to-front part (1857) contains an intermediate draft of the famous transcription and translation of the 'Inscription of Tiglath Pileser I', six weeks ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1856-1857
Extent:
1 notebook (71 folios, 70 pages of text)

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