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Catalogue of Mann Collection - MAN/4/1-MAN/4/16 item descriptions

MAN/4/1 - Notebooks re Anglo-Saxon, Basque and Breton languages (circa) (1927-1944) (circa)

Previous number: part of items 13 and 14

Contents: notebooks Anglo-Saxon, Basque and Breton languages comprising -

• "Standard Anglo-Saxon English minimum dictionary"
• "Old Saxon grammar and glossary"
• "Bask minimum dictionary"
• "English-Breton minimum dictionary"

(Languages) Anglo-Saxon & Basque & Breton & English

1 envelope containing 4 notebooks

MAN/4/2 - Unpublished volumes "Armenian Etyma I-III" (circa) (1968)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: three typescript volumes of an unpublished but probably intended to be published work "Armenian Etyma I-III"

(Languages) Armenian & English

1 folder containing 3 volumes

MAN/4/3 - Notebooks re Armenian language (circa) (1927)

Previous number: part of items 13 and 14

Contents: notebooks mainly re Armenian language comprising -

• "Aucher: radicals with etymologies"
• "Minimum texts "Armenian, Oseetian, Persian, Lithuanian, Welsh, Hittite"
• "English-Armenian minimum dictionary"

(Languages) Armenian & English

1 envelope containing 3 notebooks

MAN/4/4 - Notebooks re Armenian language and literature (circa) (1968)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: notebooks re Armenian language and literature comprising -

• "Verbs"
• Notebook of vocabulary
• "Paustas (readings) Book II, ch. 33 onward and transliterated texts with translations. historical background notes"
• "Ruth/Acts 27-8, titles of Paustas's history of Armenia (1, part of 2)"
• "Acts 1-12 done in Latinized Armenian transcription"

(Languages) Armenian & English

1 envelope containing 5 notebooks

MAN/4/5 - Notebooks and index cards re Armenian language and literature (circa) (1968)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: index cards of Armenian verbs and vocabulary and notebooks re Armenian language and literature comprising -

• "Armenian dialogue"
• "Armenian dialogs"
• "Miscellaneous Armenian notes"
• "Armenian I ani. texts, notes on researchers"
• "Armenian classical, radicals with etmological notes"

(Languages) Armenian & English

1 envelope containing 5 notebooks and 2 sets index cards

MAN/4/6 - Partial typescript of Armenian dictionary (circa) (1968)

Previous number: part of item 8

Contents: partial (B-G) of Armenian dictionary

(Languages) Armenian & English

1 folder

MAN/4/7 - Notes re Cypro-Mycenæan language (1946-1973)

Previous number: part of item 15

Contents: notes, news cuttings and a small amount of correspondence re Cypro-Mycenæan language includes notebook on Mycenæan vocabulary and minutes of seminars at the University College London Institute of Classical Studies.

(Languages) Cypro-Mycenæan & English

1 envelope

MAN/4/8 - Notebook re Cypro-Mycenæan language (1960-1974)

Previous number: part of item 4

Contents: notebook re Cypro-Mycenæan language includes a number of loose papers including a reprint of an article by Mann "The Decipherment of Cypro-Mycenæan" ("Man", 1960, 53)

(Languages) Cypro-Mycenæan & English

1 envelope containing 1 volume

MAN/4/9 - Card index of Cypro-Mycenæan vocabulary (circa 1944-1974) (circa)

Previous number: part of item 23

Contents: card index of Cypro-Mycenæan vocabulary

(Languages) Cypro-Mycenæan & English

1 envelope

MAN/4/10 - Notes on English language including Nottinghamshire dialect (1927-1964)

Previous number: part of item 15

Contents: notes on English language including on the Nottinghamshire dialect and on English etymology and also the following articles -

• "The dialect of Nottingham and District" (published in "Notes and Queries", vol 153, no 10, Sept 1927)
• "Dialect words of Nottingham and District" (published in "Notes and Queries", vol 156, no 14, Apr 1929)
• "Dialect words of Nottingham and District" (published in "Notes and Queries", vol 165, no 13, Sept 1933)

(Languages) English

1 envelope

MAN/4/11 - Mann's writings in English (1932-1975)

Previous number: item 19

Contents: Mann's writings in English comprising -

• "Anglamer: a simple method for learning to speak English" (London, 1932)
• "The right word: a guide to English usage for foreign students" (unpublished typescript 1951)
• "Thoughts for thinkers (verses cosmic and caustic)" (unpublished typescript 1973)
• "A book of awful verses" (unpublished typescript 1975)

(Languages) English

1 envelope

Publication: "Anglamer: a simple method for learning to speak English" (London, 1932)

MAN/4/12 - Notebooks re Etruscan, French, Georgian, German and Greek languages (1927-1944)

Previous number: part of items 13 and 14

Contents: notebooks re Etruscan, French, Georgian, German and Greek languages comprising -

• "Estruscan" (1927)
• "French Etymology"
• "Georgian"
• "Georgian & English minimum dictionary" (1940)
• "Low German minimum dictionary" (1944)
• "Schwyzer Dutsch"
• "Plattdutsch: vocabulary and notes"
• "German idioms"
• "Greek"
• "Iphigeneia he ne Oulidi"
• "English & modern Greek minimum dictionary"

(Languages) English & Etruscan & French & Georgian & German & Greek

1 envelope containing 11 notebooks

MAN/4/13 - Notebooks re Hittite, Kalmyk, Latvian and Linear A languages (1939-1962)

Previous number: part of items 14 and 15

Contents: notebooks re Hittite, Kalmyk, Latvian, Linear B languages comprising -

• "English-Hittite minimum dictionary" (1939)
• "Kalmyk minimum dictionary" (1947)
• "English-Lettish minimum dictionary"
• "Lettish-English dictionary"
• "The language of the Linear A script" by S Davis (1962)

(Languages) English & Hittite & Kalmyk & Latvian & Linear A

1 envelope containing 5 notebooks

MAN/4/14 - Notebooks re Lithuanian, Ossetian, Persian and Portuguese languages (1935)

Previous number: part of items 13, 14 and 15

Contents: notebooks re Lithuanian, Ossetian, Persian and Portuguese languages comprising -

• "Lithuanian essential vocabulary"
• "Lithuanian vocabulary"
• "English-Lithuanian minimum dictionary"
• "English-Ossetian dictionary"
• "English-Ossetian minimum dictionary" (1935)
• "Persian dialogue"
• "English-Persian minimum dictionary" (1935)
• "Vocabulary of modern Persian"
• "Portuguese"

(Languages) English & Lithuanian & Persian & Portuguese

1 envelope containing 9 notebooks

MAN/4/15 - Notebooks re Romany and Russian languages (circa) (1927-1944) (circa)

Previous number: part of items 13 and 14

Contents: notebooks re Romany and Russian languages comprising -

• "Basic Romani (Romani interpretations based on "Basic Dictionary")"
• "Revelation 10-22 (end) in Gipsy, Hebrew"
• "Idioms and new words for the English-Romani Dictionary"
• "Supplement to Preobrazhenskii (words not recorded by him, some from te onwards, duplicated here in error)"
• "Russian verbs, minimum verb list"
• "Russian"
• "Russian colloquial notes"

(Languages) English & Romany & Russian

1 envelope containing 7 notebooks

MAN/4/16 - Notebooks re Tocharic, Umbrian, Wendish and Welsh languages (1939-1980)

Previous number: part of item 14

Contents: notebooks re Tocharic, Umbrian, Wendish and Welsh languages comprising -

• "English-Tocharic minimum dictionary" (1939)
• "Umbrian: the Iguvian tablets, a reassessment"
• "English-Wendish minimum dictionary"
• Two notebooks of Welsh vocabulary

(Languages) English & Umbrian & Welsh

1 envelope containing 5 notebooks

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