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11. Add MS 88942/1/57

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a list of mainly technical, physical, optical and mathematical vocabulary in German with English translations, notes on Welsh, Erse or Irish, Gaelic (mainly lists of words with English translations, some etymological). It also contains lists of place names in Austria, German...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Gaelic, German, and Welsh
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 28 pages of text)

12. Add MS 88942/1/58

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on Egyptian (including some Hieroglyphics), Greek, Sanskrit, Afghan, Persian (all in Latin script), mainly as lists of words that are partly alphabetical. It also contains some ancient historical notes, probably extracted from a book and a list of books on languages s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, Greek, Ancient, Pashto, Persian, and Sanskrit
Date Range:
2nd quarter of the 19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 30 pages of text)

13. Add MS 88942/1/60

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook entitled ﻋﺭﺐ (Arab) starts 'Lillahi al hhamed u al minath' and contains mainly notes in Arabic (in English script with very few Arabic characters) and a few notes in Persian. Back to front (upside-down): notes (vocabulary) on and translation of 'The Garden and the Nightingale' (fr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, and Swedish
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (39 folios, 28 pages of text), 17 loose sheets (17 folios, 33 pages of text)

14. Add MS 88942/1/61

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains very few notes on etymology, mainly of Italian words. It is probably from the 1830s when Talbot dedicated a lot of time to etymology.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 5 pages of text)

15. Add MS 88942/1/62

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains mainly notes on the Greek language, such as definition of words and etymology; but also notes on other languages such as Gaelic, Icelandic and German which Talbot relates to Greek. It also includes notes on Latin, some modern European languages and Persian. Talbot mentions a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Ancient, Icelandic, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 42 pages of text)

16. Add MS 88942/1/63

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
The notebook is used on the first page only. It contains notes in pencil on botany: the headline 'Copied' is followed by a list of mainly Greek words and few single words in various modern European languages.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Greek, Ancient
Date Range:
1830s
Extent:
1 notebook (66 folios, 1 pages of text)

17. Add MS 88942/1/67

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Conundrums, Charades, Riddles')
Scope & Content:
This non-attributed notebook contains 100 questions (entitled 'Conundrums') with corresponding answers which incorporate wordplay. For example: '28. Why is a little negro like a white man? Because he is not at all (a tall) black'; and: '17. Why is a little thief like a Roman Emperor? Because he i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (54 folios, 20 pages of text)

18. Add MS 88942/1/155

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Cypriote inscriptions')
Scope & Content:
Attempts on Cypriot sounds and signs. Talbot compares them with a translation by George Smith. Many blank pages. Notebook started: Oct 1876.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cypriot and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 6 pages of text)

19. Add MS 88942/1/259

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
Lists expenses from 17 May 1827- 10 June 1828, in Italian. With the notebook are six loose sheets (ff. i-vi), receipts from 1827 and 1827, that were originally kept in the inside pocket of the notebook. The notebook entries are not in Talbot's hand. Notebook started: 17 Mar 1827.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1827-1828
Extent:
1 notebook (vi + 31 ff.)

20. EAP1101/2

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EAP1101/2
Title:
Ile-Nababa Family Collections
Scope & Content:
Family collection of manuscripts: • EAP1101/2/1 Mukhtarat min Qasaid 'Antarah bn Shaddad Al-'Absy• EAP1101/2/2 Maqsurat bn Duryd• EAP1101/2/3 Mukhtarat min Qasaid 'Alqama bn Abadah bn Nu'man• EAP1101/2/4 Takhmis Qasidat Banat Su'ad li Ka'b bn Zuhair• EAP1101/2/5 Mu'allaqah 'Antarah bn Shaddad A...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Arabic
Date Range:
20th century
Extent:
2610 tiff images