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751. 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)

752. 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 It includes a decipherment of an unpublished text (possibly a drawing) by Layard.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)

753. 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)

754. 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)

755. Add MS 88942/1/364

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Title:
Talbot: Loose notes (botany)
Scope & Content:
‘Botany.’ (undated). National Trust Accession: 36750. ‘Orchis – Whole plant brown …’ (undated). NTA: 37006. Note, (undated). Botanical notes. NTA: 37005. Note, (1815). Botanical notes written mainly on the reverse of an envelope addressed to 'Captain Charles Feilding'. NTA: 36976. ‘Jacaranda...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1823-1867
Extent:
1 folder

756. Add MS 88942/1/34

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('J')
Scope & Content:
This notebook is probably the continuation of notebook 'I' (Add MS 88942/1/348) and contains etymological notes on possible derivations and etymological connections between English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Greek. Talbot also refers to Turkish and Persian and Dutch. In this notebook Ta...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Ancient, Italian, Latin, Persian, and Turkish, Ottoman
Date Range:
1845-1858
Extent:
1 notebook (92 folios, 120 pages of text)

757. Add MS 88942/3/2/32

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Title:
Talbot: Publications concerning botany, entomology and zoology
Scope & Content:
'The Floricultural Cabinet and Florists’ Magazine. January to December 1839. Volume VII.' (1839). Joseph Harrison, Whittaker & Co, London. National Trust Accession: 29093. 'On Heating Plant Structures.' (1847). Mr Joseph Harrison (Ed.). Extract from the 'Floricultural Cabinet'. NTA: 36169.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1839-1847
Extent:
1 file

758. Add MS 88942/1/135

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Miscellanea Assyria Vol I')
Scope & Content:
The notebook concerns 'Assyrian & Babylonian inscriptions' and includes notes on Sir Henry Rawlinson's work on various tablets and objects in the British Museum. Talbot attempts to translate by looking at individual words, making comparisons with Latin and Greek, by comparing his ideas to th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian, Akkadian, Greek, Ancient, Hebrew, and Latin
Date Range:
29 Jun 1853
Extent:
1 notebook (39 folios, 48 pages of text)

759. Add MS 88942/1/114

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Title:
Talbot: Notebook ('Vol III C')
Scope & Content:
A note on the last page indicates that pp. 4-22 relate to the Annals of Ashurakhbal. The notebook contains notes on shorter inscriptions of monuments. There are page numbers in pencil. Another important inscription Talbot dealt with was the Bellino Cylinder, named after the German philologist Ka...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Akkadian
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 notebook (22 folios, 32 pages of text)

760. Add MS 88942/3/2/5

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Title:
Talbot: Publications concerning photography
Scope & Content:
Chimie Photographique. [c 1858]. MM. Barreswil et Davanne, Second Edition, Mallet-Bachelier, Paris. ‘A M Talbot’ is handwritten on the front cover as well as a bookseller's stamp 'David Nutt, Foreign Bookseller, 270. Strand'. Note from Barreswil et Davanne to 'Monsieur Talbot'. (1858). Document...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
circa 1855
Extent:
1 file