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Add MS 88942/1/169
- Record Id:
- 040-002189118
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002188938
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000822.0x000329
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88942/1/169
- Title:
- Talbot: Notebook ('Defence of a Magistrate, falsely accused')
- Scope & Content:
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The notebook contains a draft of a translation of a tablet in the British Museum. It also includes two pages of notes at the back of the notebook on the first public announcement of Talbot's photographic experiments (by Michael Faraday, at the Royal Institution, 1839).
Notebook started: 3 May 1877, Lacock.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002188938
036-002188939
040-002189118 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88942 : The Papers of William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877)
Add MS 88942/1 : William Henry Fox Talbot: Notebooks and loose notes
Add MS 88942/1/169 : Talbot: Notebook ('Defence of a Magistrate, falsely accused') - Hierarchy:
- 032-002188938[0001]/036-002188939[0101]/040-002189118
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88942
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 notebook (6 folios, 12 pages of text)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Akkadian
English - Scripts:
- Cuneiform, Sumero-Akkadian
Latin - Start Date:
- 1877
- End Date:
- 1877
- Date Range:
- 1877
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Dimensions: 200 mm x 160 mm, with many pages cut out.
- Former External References:
- National Trust accession number 30954
- Administrative Context:
- According to a note at the beginning of the notebook started in: Lacock
- Publications:
- Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, Vol. 6, 1878 (post pub.), "Defence of a Magistrate, falsely accused"
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Talbot, William Henry Fox, photographer, 1800-1877
- Subjects:
- Assyriology
Photography