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501. Add MS 88942/1/226

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Add MS 88942/1/226
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Wages Paid')
Scope & Content:
Contains notes on staff wages 1810-1812 at Lacock Abbey. Notebook started: 15 May 1810.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1810-1812
Extent:
1 notebook (30 folios, 22 pages of text)

502. Add MS 88942/1/112-115

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Add MS 88942/1/112-115
Title:
Talbot: Notebooks (Athenaeum Club Vol I A-Vol IV D)
Scope & Content:
It was presumably at the Athenaeum Club, to which Talbot was elected in 1824, that the notebook series Add MS 88942/1/112-115 came into being. The series is not characterised by a clear purpose or specific goal. The contents of the notebooks varies, ranging from transliterations, notes on transla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, English, and Latin
Date Range:
1855-1856
Extent:
4 notebooks

503. Add MS 88942/1/147

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Add MS 88942/1/147
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Octagon of the Tiglath Pileser I')
Scope & Content:
This notebook continues notebook Add MS 88942/1/146 with the translation of 'Tiglath Pileser'. See also Add MS 88942/1/148. Notebook started: 20 Feb 1857.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1857
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 22 pages of text), 1 loose sheet (1 folio, 2 pages of text)

504. Add MS 88942/1/167

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Add MS 88942/1/167
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('The Legend of Ishtar decending to Hades')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains a line by line translation of 'The Legend of Ishtar descending to Hades'. It is probably a draft for a later publication. Notebook started: 14 Mar 1873.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1873
Extent:
1 notebook (38 folios, 57 pages of text)

505. Add MS 88942/1/176

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Add MS 88942/1/176
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Creation Tabl[et] / Interlinear 2nd part, Tablet V')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is a first draft of Add MS 88942/1/127. Many pages are cut out. Continuous with Add MS 88942/1/177.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian and English
Date Range:
1875
Extent:
1 notebook (2 folios, 4 pages of text)

506. Add MS 88942/1/210

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Add MS 88942/1/210
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Note on the early History of Spectrum Analysis')
Scope & Content:
Draft of an article Talbot published much later, in 1872. Talbot refers to Fraunhofer, Brewster, Newton, and Wollaston. Several references are quoted up to 1842, and reference is made to the 'Manchester meeting' (1842) of the British Association (numbered p. 9).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
after 1842
Extent:
1 notebook (16 folios, 12 pages of text), 2 loose sheets (2 folios, 2 pages of text)

507. Add MS 88942/1/183

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Add MS 88942/1/183
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('A')
Scope & Content:
The notebook contains various astronomical and atmospheric observations (dated 1817 and 1819) and a few mathematical notes. Talbot studied planes revolving around an axis, found the equation for a curve traced by its intersection with a line (parabola), and also took extensive notes on the posit...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1817-1844
Extent:
1 notebook (21 ff.)

508. Add MS 88942/1/184

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Add MS 88942/1/184
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('B')
Scope & Content:
Talbot used this astronomical and mathematical notebook between 1822 and 1824 (the notebook includes the date Feb 11 1824 on a later page). The notebook continues notes on comets commenced in notebook 'A' (Add MS 88942/1/183), begining with notes on the first comet of 1822 discovered in Auriga M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822-1824
Extent:
1 notebook (59 folios, 97 pages of text)

509. Add MS 88942/1/185

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Add MS 88942/1/185
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('C')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains mainly astronomical and a few mathematical notes. The notebook contains substantial records of Talbot’s conversations with Dominique Arago at the Paris Observatory from March 1825. Talbot used the large telescope there to observe Jupiter, the Crab nebula and the Orion nebu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1825
Extent:
1 notebook (44 folios, 70 pages of text)

510. Add MS 88942/1/187

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Add MS 88942/1/187
Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('E')
Scope & Content:
This notebook contains notes on astronomy and mathematics. These include remarks on the obliquity of the ecliptic (i.e. the tilt of the Earth’s axis) dated 20 January 1828, notes on the 'Photometer', and notes on integrals, possibly in preparation for 'Researches in the Integral Calculus' (1836 ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1827-1835
Extent:
1 notebook (21 folios, 38 pages of text)