The notebook contains notes for Part I of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1868). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
This notebook appears to contain draft material for Part II of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1870). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Talbot: Notebook (‘Deferred in order to be rewritten’)
Scope & Content:
This notebook appears to contain draft material for Part III of 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1873). Many pages have been cut from the notebook. See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1870?
Extent:
1 notebook (3 folios, 3 pages of text), 2 loose sheets (2 folios, 2 pages of text)
This notebook contains material that appears to relate to an uncompleted continuation of Talbot's 'Contributions towards a Glossary of the Assyrian Language' (1868-1873). See also the notebooks Add MS 88942/1/68-105.
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...
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...
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.