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201. Add MS 88942/1/10

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/10
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('3', in pencil)
Scope & Content:
This notebook starts with notes 'On the fable of Orpheus and Euridyce - requires that Micalis’ plate should be copied'. Amongst miscellaneous notes on Greek literature and etymology it also contains reflections on the term 'Drama' and other terms related to Greek literature and a short section on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, and Latin
Date Range:
1837?-1838?
Extent:
1 notebook (24 folios, 48 pages of text)

202. Add MS 88942/1/122

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/122
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Bel & Dragon')
Scope & Content:
Notes for 'Bel and the Dragon' (1877). The notebook probably continues Add MS 88942/1/121 and continues with Add MS 88942/1/123. Notebook started: 11 Jun [1876].
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (18 folios, 3 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 1 page of text)

203. Add MS 88942/1/123

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/123
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Notes and Observations')
Scope & Content:
Line by line notes and commentary on 'Bel and the Dragon' (1877), with notes on 'Column I' at the front of the book and notes on 'Col II' at the back of the notebook. With three loose sheets of related notes, dated 19 and 20 June 1876 (Lacock Abbey). The notebook is a continuation of Add MS 88942...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (15 folios, 15 pages of text), 3 loose sheets (3 folios, 5 pages of text)

204. Add MS 88942/1/238

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/238
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Visiting Book 1816')
Scope & Content:
The visiting book, partly by Lady Elisabeth, partly by someone else, contains a list of names and addresses as well as a 'List for ball 1825' amongst other guest lists. Back to front (upside down): starts also "Visiting book 1816" but only four pages follow of which two are crossed out.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1816-1825
Extent:
1 notebook (65 folios, 90 pages of text)

205. Add MS 88942/1/311

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/311
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Books & Manuscripts relating to the Illustrious Family of Talbot and its Noble Alliances')
Scope & Content:
Divided into two sections. 1. 'Books & Manuscripts relating to the Illustrious Family of Talbot and its Noble Alliances'. An assembled bibliographical pedigree, combining partly printed descriptions of books and manuscripts (cut and adhered to the notebook folios) and partly copied passages...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 notebook (unbound)

206. Add MS 88942/1/160

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/160
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a translation entitled 'The Second Inscription of Esarhaddon' - for an earlier draft, see Add MS 88942/1/157. The translation deals with the inscription of the Assyrian king Esarhaddon (681–669 BC), to which Talbot dedicated much of his time from the mid 1850s onwards. For f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
between 1875-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (27 folios, 28 pages of text), 5 loose sheets (5 folios, 5 pages of text)

207. Add MS 88942/1/173

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/173
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The standard inscription of Ashur-akh-bal')
Scope & Content:
Manuscript draft of 'The standard inscription of Ashur-akj-bal translated by H F Talbot FRS'. At the head of the first page, 'Vol VII' is written in pencil (not in Talbot's hand).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
[1865-1866]
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 12 pages of text)

208. Add MS 88942/1/40

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/40
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Seven Champions of Christendom / A Poem')
Scope & Content:
This early notebook contains a poem (two pages long) entitled ‘The Seven Champions of Christendom’. Only a few more pages in the notebook are used. They contain miscellaneous notes including a brief word list in French and, upside-down, a brief account list. One page seems to be written by Lady ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1809
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 7 pages of text)

209. Add MS 88942/1/124

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/124
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Notice of a new work on Assyriology by F.D.')
Scope & Content:
Refers to Friedrich Delitzsch, Assyrische Lesestücke (Leipzig, 1876), and includes notes on 'Tablet 42'. Talbot referred to Delitzsch’s publication in several notebooks (Add MS 88942/1/124-127). See also Add MS 88942/1/176-177.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1876
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 29 pages of text)

210. Add MS 88942/1/207

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 88942/1/207
Title:
Talbot: Notebook (continuation of 'Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations...')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is a continuation of Add MS 88942/1/208, and comprises a continuation of the draft manuscript of 'Essay towards a General Solution of Numerical Equations of all Degrees having Integer Roots' (1875). Notebook pages used are numbered 17-24. With (preceding) loose sheets numbered 13-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874?-1875?
Extent:
1 notebook, plus 8 loose sheets