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The Papers of Edward William West reflect his interest in Pahlavi language and Zoroastrianism. The majority are handwritten notebooks and other manuscripts in which he did his work. These often have many inserts. There are also loose handwritten notes, some correspondence and some printed material.

The manuscripts compiled by Edward William West. Many of these were listed by de Menasce. West was interested in many topics which are reflected in these manuscripts.

Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. identified as West 1 from de Menasche handlist.

Contents:

• "Lord's prayer in Zand"
• London MSS., handwritten copy of L22 and folio level description of most folios ranging from L1 - L26
• Pazand Bundhašin from L22 with other miscellaneous passages from the same and a description of the MSS.
• Pahlavi introduction to Vishtasp Yasht from L5, Pahlabi Stayishwai Sirozah from L26, description of several volumes of MSS. from the East India Library.

Inserts:

• traced characters and sections from MSS.
• travel plans
• scrap of paper containing definitions
• folio titled "Zand translation of the Lord's Prayer by M. Hang, Ph.D"
• other miscellaneous papers containing calculations, notes, etc

Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, hand written in ink, inserts held in place with string and brass paperclips, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 2 in de Menasche handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi & Pazand Shikhand-gumani (first part), from L15,23
• End of Pahlavi Rivayat, from L15
• Pahlavi Patet-I Khud, from the same
• Pahlavi duties of ameshaspends, from the same
• Pahalvi Gosht-I Fryano, from the same
• Pazand Patet-I Adarbad Mardspend, from the same
• Pazand-Sankstrit Minokhand, from L19 with commentary on the condition of the original text, its discrepancies and its mixture of lanuages
• Copy of the Buwahirin Fragment
• "Collation of the OW portion of the 2 & PW"
• Zand-Pahlavi prayers & miyayish, from L12 Inserts: Pahlavi version of the Yatha Ahi Vairyo rayer from the London E.I. Library
• Indexical information
• Transcript of Pazand Menok-i-Xrat from London
• MSS Shayast-ne-Sayast from London MSS

Inserts:

• Pahlavi version of the Yatha Ahi Vairyo rayer from the London E.I. Library,
• plastic indexical information newspaper clipping on "The Lost Canon of Berosus"
• miscellaneous numerical calculations

Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 3 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi Pandamak-I Buzung Mihir, from H16 and K29
• Pahalavi Karnamak-I Aradashir-I Papakan, from H15
• Pahalavi Rivayat, from H6, miscellaneous passage, gifts & qualities of 30 Yazads
• Pahlavi Pandnamak, from K29
• Pahlavi Bahman Yasht, from K29, answers of Aashna, the sage, to his disciple, the cursed abalish, Yasht fragments, Hadokcht Nask; Zand-Pahlavi Visparad, from H6
• Description of 21 Nasko extracted from a MS. of Dinik Vajarkand in Dr. Noshinvanji's Library at Poona
• On the Pahlavi Shahnamah MS. T. which is "Dastur Jamashji's copy of his ancester Dastur Jamshapji's copy of his own old MS. DJ"
• beginning of the Den Vicirkart (from the Poona MS. belonging to Dastur Hoshangji Jamaspji; the end is in vol. 19
• Introductions and Postscripts collected by Prof Geldner, received 1893

Inserts:

• list of MSS. described
• "Contents of Shayash-nashayash"
• descriptions, notes and summaries to other texts miscellaneous numerical calculations
• scraps of paper that serve an indexical purpose

Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 4 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• Copies from London and Munich MSS.
• Pazand Shikhand-gumdni, latter part from H19
• Parsi Gosht-I Fryano, from H7
• Persian extract, from P12, 15, quoted by Spiege
• Parsee Bundahish (fragment) from H9
• Parsee the accursed abalish from H7, misc., Jamasp namah
• Pahlavi Jamasp: copy of transcript from Saujana's MSS.
• Pazand and Zand Nirangs from H21
  *, Pazand-Sanskrit Marriage Formula
• Pazand Para Dabirastan from H22, Bahman Yasht, names of constellations
• Pazand-Sanskrit Aogemadhae from H21, Introduction to Arda Vinafnawak from Dest., Parsi Conversation about religion between Aurmazad & Zaratusht
• Parsi Pandnmaha from H7
• Parsi-Zand Vaj-i Avista in Zand from H7
• Persian remarks aobut the khedyodat from H7
• Parsi remarks about the ressurection from H7,
• Parsi genealogy of Zanatusht
• Zand-Pahlavi fragment Vend. VIII, from H19
• Persian extracts from Rivayats regarding Slaughter of Animals from H19
• Pazand Rivayat of Kamadin Shapur
• Sanskrit-Shikhand-gumani and Persian-Shikhandi-gumani, two fragments each from Prof. Max Muller's MS.("now in India Office building in the library")

Inserts:

• "Dastur Jamapji Minocheharji's address"
• "Contents of Dadistan Codex"
• Copy of a rare "Pahlavi Jamasp-namak" MS. with description of missing passages/sections and a key to reading his markings in the copy.

Description: Green, blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook with blue pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string a, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 5 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• Persian Texts from Munich and Oxford including Dadar I Dadduxt
• "Contractions common in Persian MSS."
• Chods-Viraf namah from H28
• The five kinds of marriage and Ahriman's advice to aeshan from H5 Rivayat on yatha-ahu-vairyo, 101 names of god, the will of God and the devil, degrees of sin & good, the tomb of Chosherevan, meaning of some Z. prayers from L8
• Description of the 21 hasks, printed from P13
• Verse introduction and post-script to Sad-Dar Mazam, printed by Hyde
• Vocabulary of Pahlavi & Pazand words from O121 & O225
• Anushrvron's ascension to the throne, Sayings & doing of Anoshirevan, beginning of the tomb of Anoshirevan, from O225
• Indir namah from O30
• Parsi cosmogong, Definition of Sins, from O40
• Saugond namah, Rivayat on miscellaneous subjects from Lb8894

Inserts:

• "Risalah-i Mimi-khirad-i digar"
• "Fragments relatifs à la religion de Zoroaste, extraits de MSS. Persans de la Bibl. du Roi par Olhausen et Jules Mohl." [Trans. Fragments relating to Zoroastrianism, extracts from Persian MSS. from the Kings Library by Olshausen and Julius Mohl]
• Short note on King Dadar bin Dad-dukht on the supremacy of Persian science in relation to Greek ways of knowing

Description: Green, blue and pink pattered hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 6 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• Pahlavi Denkard, from H13a ("no more copied, as I have another complete copy that collates with the most original MS. In Bombay, H13 and all other Bombay copies are derived)
• Two versions of Bahman Yasht
• Jamaspi [MS.]
• Ahktami-I Jamasp Hakim
• Afrim-I Zanatusht, Persian
• Du'a-i Bahran-i Vanjanand, Pazand
• Du'a-i Hushidan Bahram Vanjanand
• Du'a-i Ham Stayishu kih Ba'd az hyayish u Yashit mi khevanand ba ma'ni navisam
• Du'a-i ham-stagishni Paz-Pers.
• Other Rivayat texts
• Dia Kas Bk VI end and VII.
• Ulama i Islama (all from MSS. in the Library of the University of Bombay)

• Denkart Bk. VI end (pp. 585, line 17 to 590 in Madan's edition). Fragment from Denkart Bk. VII.

  Inserts:

• scraps of papers with numbers referencing books and personal papers, miscellaneous calculations, word meanings;
• "E.W. West's Transcript of the Pahlavi Denkard, Book VI" a note seemingly about an exhibition on West in "the [Royal Asiatic] Society"
• torn financial documents from "The Machinery Trust Limited" used to note calculations and page numbers in Pahlavi Texts.

Description: Green, blue and pink pattered hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 7 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi Din-kard (fragments) from H13a, loose folios 389-90, 399-400, 402-411 of DS, description of MSS. DR & DS
• Multiple folios from Pahlavi Dinkard book 1st from Bombay Govt. MS. at Deccan College
• "Pahlavi text of Menok-i-Xrat copied from a fascimile of the old codex brought from Persia by the Westergaard in 1843-4
• A description of the DS of Denkart
• Persian colophon to M13a (Haug's MS. of Dinkard, IV - IX)
• "Differences between the old Pahl. and Paz. texts of mkh"
• Denkart Bk. III down to ch. 123 (Sanjana = Madan p. 119), copied from a copy belonging to the Bombay Government, collated with D.S.
• The lost folios from Hoshang's Denkart MS
• Denkart Bk. VIII continued
  *. Menok i Xrat from the Kopenhagen MS
• Beginning of Denkart Bk. VIII

Inserts:

• "Nouvelle Acquisitions de Manuscrits Pehlevis A Kopenhague" in Print by E.W West and "Recent additions to the Pahlavi manuscripts at Kopenhagen" handwritten by E.W. West; a note and description of missing folios (pp. 46-47)
• scrap of paper with original script and transliteration
• single folio written in Pahlavi script, ink with a signature in the arabic script
• envelope with notes
• notes on "the scanty information of Bukht-marare" written on the cover of the RASJ Part 1, dated 1900
• A description of The Dinkard, Vols VIII & IX, by Pehstan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana and a note to other Pahlavi scholars on research yet to be done written on ruled loose folios
• small loose folios with an "Estimate of words in books 3 - 9 of Dinkard" and estimate number of words in Haug's copy of Dinkard
• small loose folio titled "Colophons of Professor Haug's Dinkart"
• folio with a slightly illegible passage with questions like: "Any further folios of Dinkard?"

Description: Green, blue and pink pattered hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 8 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Denkart Bk III continued to Chapter 372 (Sanjana = Madan p.354)
• Babylonian Chronology from George Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol. 3
• Kings of Assyria from Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol 2.
• Mythology of the Chaldeans from Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol 1.

Inserts:

• Explanation of the word "homast"
• folios with Pahlavi transliteration and its English translation, the passage identifying marks are written in the corner of each: pp.181-183 and pp. 238 & 56
• A blue folio with words meanings in Pahlavi and English, some of which have question marks next to them
• folio with list of words and page numbers they can be found on
• folio with passage DKa 313, 3
• folio with "Zand words in Din-Kard"
• folio with a few more words, mostly blank
• Gujarati newspaper article with the articles: "Pehlvi Inscriptions in South India," "Important Speech by Lord North Brook in the Delhi Durbar" from the newspaper "Rast Gopukar Tatha Satya Prakash"
• [unmailed/draft of a] letter to the editor of "The Academy" regarding the inclusion of Pahlavi texts
• Four Folios of description, praise, and introductions for "The Dinkard"
• loose folios that serve an index
• On the back of a Times of India "Saturday Afternoon Edition" announcement leaflet "Sections of Book III not quoted from Nike-i-Vehedas"