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111. Add MS 88942/1/261

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook
Scope & Content:
At the front of the notebook, Talbot has recorded various European travel expenses for 1828 (e.g. 'Hire of carriage from Calais to Geneva'). At the back of the notebook (upside-down) are other financial records (e.g. 'amount of stock held, August 1828'). Notebook started: 17 Jul 1828 (written ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1828-1829
Extent:
1 notebook (4 folios, 5 pages of text)

112. Add MS 88942/1/200

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (John Brickdale, 'The Elements of Euclid')
Scope & Content:
The inside front cover of this notebook is inscribed ‘John Brickdale 1778'. It contains a handwritten copy of ‘The Elements of Euclid’ that was presumably used by Talbot in the course of his tuition.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1778
Extent:
1 notebook (59 ff. + 17*, 25*, 26*)

113. Add MS 88942/1/46

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Philologica')
Scope & Content:
'Miscellanea Philologica' includes a few notes on the etymology of equivalent words in various indo-European languages. Back to front: contains 'Irish numerals according to Dr. O'Conner' and further notes on English, Irish and Greek etymology, also of names. Only a few pages are used. Notebook ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Indo-European languages
Date Range:
1829
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 13 pages of text)

114. Add MS 88942/1/68-86

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Title:
Talbot: 'Rough' Notebooks 1-20
Scope & Content:
A series of 'Rough' notebooks, numbered 1-20 ('Rough 5' is missing).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1866-[1871]
Extent:
19 notebooks

115. Add MS 88942/1/116-119

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks ('Athenaeum Club')
Scope & Content:
Notebooks 116-119 contain notes and translations of further cuneiform inscriptions from Nimrud and Nineveh in the British Museum. They include shorter notes on other tablets in the British Museum, corrections of Talbot's previous publications, and notes on etymology and religious beliefs. Each no...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
[1855]-[1870]
Extent:
4 notebooks

116. Add MS 88942/1/312

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Lacock Tenants)
Scope & Content:
Accounts from August to December (no year given) regarding Lacock tenants (e.g. Baker, Tuck, Estcot, Webb's wife, Taylor, Estcot, Shewring, Cole, Fortune, Humphreys). With three sheets containing further records, one of which refers to 'Rent received in 3 years' and 'Repairs in 3 years'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (8 folios, 16 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 5 pages of text)

117. Add MS 88942/1/276

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Messrs. Coutts & Co')
Scope & Content:
Record of an account of William Henry Fox Talbot with Coutts Bank. First entry: 15 Dec 1840. Final entry: 20 May 1862.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1840-1862
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 77 pages of text)

118. Add MS 88942/1/3

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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 noteboo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
2 Sep [1809]
Extent:
20 loose sheets

119. Add MS 88942/1/45

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Liguria')
Scope & Content:
Notes by Talbot's half sister Horatia Feilding all taken in Italian in Liguria in Genova in 1824, with translations (e.g. from Voltaire) into Italian and extracts of literary, philosophical, historical, scientific and biblical texts. In the back cover a note below a translation 'tradottto da [?]...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1824
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 41 pages of text)

120. Add MS 88942/1/134

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Ψ')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains further notes on the Assyrian language. Notebook started at Lacock: 27 May 1870.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian
Date Range:
1870
Extent:
1 notebook (32 folios, 65 pages of text)