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371. Add MS 88942/1/112

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol I A')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains draft translations of cuneiform inscriptions from Nimrud and Nineveh in the British Museum. Talbot transliterates Assyrian into English script and copies the signs. In addition to the translations, there are further notes on the right hand page as well as more notes and co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (40 folios, 48 pages of text)

372. Add MS 88942/1/21

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook 'V'
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of an incomplete series and follows Add MS 88942/1/20. It includes etymological notes on English, Greek, Latin, Welsh and Hebrew. Notebook started: 7 Aug 1838.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Latin, and Welsh
Date Range:
1838
Extent:
1 notebook (70 folios, 140 pages of text)

373. Add MS 88942/1/29

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is part of a larger incomplete series which served as preparation for Talbot's English Etymologies and continues Add MS 88942/1/28. The etymological notebook contains mainly notes on English etymology but also notes on Greek, Latin, French and Italian words and names. It includes o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1842
Extent:
2 notebook (55 folios, 111 pages of text)

374. Add MS 88942/1/36

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('L')
Scope & Content:
The notebook is part of a larger series and probably continues Notebook 'K' (Add MS 88942/1/35). Talbot starts with thoughts about Greek mythology, but then moves on to the etymology of words, names and places, mainly in English and Greek, but also in other languages, mainly German, later also i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1848-1852
Extent:
1 notebook (100 folios, 197 pages of text)

375. Add MS 88942/1/13-17

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Title:
Talbot: Notebooks 'S.1'-'S.5'
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Egyptian (Ancient), English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, and Persian
Date Range:
1836-1837
Extent:
5 notebooks

376. Add MS 88942/1/365

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Title:
Talbot: Loose notes (scientific research and experiment)
Scope & Content:
‘Proposed method of multiplying copies of M. S. S.’ (19 December, 1847). Also includes notes on an 'Electrical Machine'. NTA: 32831. Note, (January, 1848). Research notes. NTA: 32836. ‘To compare different intensities of the same colour.’ (undated). NTA: 36806. ‘Foucault’s Gyroscope’ (undated...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1871
Extent:
1 folder

377. Add MS 88942/1/37

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('M')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is probably the last part of a larger series on etymological notes and probably continues notebook 'L' (Add MS 88942/1/36). If this is the case then Talbot has returned to the series after a break of seven years. The notebook contains notes on languages and etymology. It includes d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1855-1877
Extent:
1 notebook (114 folios, 75 pages of text)

378. Add MS 88942/1/113

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol II B')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains notes on Assyrian Cuneiform text and Greek. It includes a decipherment of an unpublished text (possibly a drawing) by Layard. On the final page, Talbot has noted 'Contents of this vol'. Notebook started: 21 May 1855 (Athenaeum Club).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 39 pages of text)

379. Add MS 88942/1/115

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol IV D')
Scope & Content:
This notebook (‘Athenaeum Club, Sept 11th 1856’) contains notes on Assyrian subjects, and begins with the heading 'From Layard's MSS'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and Latin
Date Range:
1856
Extent:
1 notebook (20 folios, 39 pages of text)

380. Add MS 88942/1/137

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook (''Miscellanea Assyria Vol. III'')
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Syriac
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (46 folios, 93 pages of text)