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171. 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)

172. Add MS 88942/1/165

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('U.145')
Scope & Content:
The notebook consists of notes on cuneiform and transcribed texts, possibly from tablets, on the right page, with footnotes and etymological and philological annotations on the left. The text consists of parts of an Iguvinic inscription in Umbrian and Latin. Talbot might have learned about the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1856?
Extent:
1 notebook (26 folios, 46 pages of text)

173. Add MS 88942/1/273

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Address Book)
Scope & Content:
This address book contains chronological entries of people, mostly with their addresses (street names). It starts in Lady Elisabeth's hand and continues in the handwriting of another person. The address book is divided by year.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1842
Extent:
1 notebook (77 folios, 82 pages of text)

174. Add MS 88942/1/274

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Address Book)
Scope & Content:
This address book contains mostly alphabetical and chronological entries of people, mostly with their addresses (street names) from 1839-1841. Some names are crossed out.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1841
Extent:
1 notebook (60 folios, 82 pages of text)

175. Add MS 88942/1/283

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (Address Book)
Scope & Content:
Address book, written in chronological order in three periods: 1844-August 1844, April 1845-July 1845, and March 1846. The book starts in Lady Elisabeth's hand and is continued in another hand.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1844-1846
Extent:
1 notebook (82 folios, 118 pages of text)

176. Add MS 88942/1/230

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Journeys 1 Dec 1813')
Scope & Content:
The notebook lists expenditure related to European travel, noting various cities. Notebook started: 1 Dec 1813.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1813-1825
Extent:
1 notebook (ii + 19 ff.)

177. Add MS 88942/1/211

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on geometry entitled ‘On some properties of conic sections’. It is possibly a very first draft for a publication (see also Add MS 88942/1/213). Four pages dated 'March 3 [18]66' are headed 'Commencement of a proposed new paper'. At the back of the notebook (upside-d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1864-1866
Extent:
1 notebook (50 folios, 70 pages of text)

178. Add MS 88942/1/213

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('On some properties of Conic Sections')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains elementary geometry and was started in the period 1864/65 when Talbot purchased a house in 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh. It contains a draft for Talbot's 'Note on Confocal Conic Sections' (1865), and continues Add MS 88942/1/212. Talbot discussed the same subject with ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1864]-1865
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 23 pages of text)

179. Add MS 88942/1/8

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Q')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains rough notes. It might be part of an incomplete series and is certainly related to notebook 'M' (Add MS 88942/1/7), which it continues. It contains botanical notes(e.g. lists of Latin plant names) and miscellaneous notes (e.g. lists of names of scholars in various instituti...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Germanic languages, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 20 pages of text)

180. Add MS 88942/1/138

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('IV')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian cuneiform text and the Greek language, and continues Add MS 88942/137. The notebook begins: ‘[cuneiform] is a sign which has various values…’. It attempts decipherment and contains notes on lexicography and biblical history. Talbot translates whole lines ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, and Hebrew
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 notebook (132 folios, 264 pages of text)