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11. Add MS 88942/1/24

Reference (shelfmark):
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:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838-1839
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)

12. Add MS 88942/1/25

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/25
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Z' - '2' in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook continues on from Add MS 88942/1/24 and is the last notebook in a larger, incomplete series. It contains notes on the etymology of Greek names and places, the etymology of Roman languages and their derivations from Greek and Latin. It also contains notes for English Etymologies, no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1839
Extent:
1 notebook (60 folios, 120 pages of text)

13. Add MS 88942/1/26

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/26
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('A')
Scope & Content:
This is the first in a large, incomplete series of notebooks, which served as preparations for Talbot's English Etymologies. The notes in this series are more organized than in previous etymological notebooks; single words are underlined that also appear in the publication. The notebook starts ‘...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Spanish
Date Range:
1840
Extent:
1 notebook (57 folios, 114 pages of text)

14. Add MS 88942/1/26-37

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/26-37
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'A'-'M'
Scope & Content:
Notebook 'I' from this sequence (which only came to light at a later stage in the cataloguing of Talbot's papers) is Add MS 88942/1/348.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Latin, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1840-1877
Extent:
12 notebooks

15. Add MS 88942/1/27

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/27
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('B')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger, incomplete series and continues on from Add MS 88942/1/26. It contains etymological studies of mainly English (but also Greek, Latin, German and French names) of objects, places and words. The notebook might have served as a preparation for Talbot's English Ety...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1841-1842?
Extent:
1 notebook (114 folios, 229 pages of text)

16. Add MS 88942/1/28

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/28
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('C')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger, incomplete series, which served as a study for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues on from Add MS 88942/1/27. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English etymology but also on Greek, Latin, French and Italian words. In this notebook severa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1841
Extent:
1 notebook (53 folios, 104 pages of text)

17. Add MS 88942/1/29

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/29
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/28. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English etymology but also notes on Greek, Latin, French and Italian words and names. It includes o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1842
Extent:
2 notebook (55 folios, 111 pages of text)

18. Add MS 88942/1/30

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/30
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('E')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/29. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English etymology but also notes on Greek, Latin, French and Italian words and names. It continues ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1842
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)

19. Add MS 88942/1/31

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/31
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('F')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/30. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English, Latin and Greek etymology but also on Greek mythology. Only the right hand pages are fille...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1843
Extent:
1 notebook (48 folios, 72 pages of text)

20. Add MS 88942/1/32

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/32
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('G')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/31. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English and Greek etymology but also on Greek mythology. Only the right hand pages are filled with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 44 pages of text)