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Description: Handwritten and offprint material. Several small items identified as part of 57A in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• On my tour in Gujurat undertaken in 1863-64 with label "Prof. M. Haug on value of MSS"
• "[Uber] Din 21" and "Din-i-Vajarkart", pp.3-46 Uncorrected proof sheets from The Jewish Encyclopedia for West's entry "Pahlavi Literature, Jews in"
• two folios with a list of articles and texts plus folios with a list of 21 items on it pertaining to the "Rivayat," "Hoshang" and some other texts
• Newsprint with different type-faces of Zend and Pahlavi
• two pages of a glossary
• scraps of paper with first words of Yasna XVI, XV, XIV; folios and number of lines

Description: Loose sheets, mainly handwritten in ink, identified as West 57B in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• "Notes from H. Speight's 'Niddendale and Garden of the Nidd'" (8/3/1899)
• Excerpts and summaries from Rawlinson
• A draft of Persian history with reference to History of Persian (London 1815)
• "Notes on some minor Pahlavi texts"
• "Conclusion of Ganj-i Shaigan, from the Tehran MS. (continued from p.11, l.11 ed. Peshton)"
• Excerpts with translations fol. 47a and 74b
• Excerpts from Denkart
• "Notes on First Series of the Selections of Zad-sparam" and serves an indexical purpose to West 10 (Vol. 10)
• "From App. To Dr.. Wm. Rovertson's Disquistion. . . " concerning a 1791 book on India
• Map of 16 Gunterstone Road
• blue folio with Pahlavi and Pazand sentence fragments
• "Pahlavi Alphabets"
• calculation of day
• Books noticed and reviewed in the "Academy" from 1874 - 88
• List of books and MSS "Pahlavi Literature" - a list with word count of each text
• An academic to-do list relating to Dk.
• A glossary
• List of Shahnamah names
• A short newspaper review on "The book of Sage Jamasp"
• Letter and Library Card for E.W. West for the British Museum with envelope
• "Defective lines at the foot of folios" fol.232a (p.286,2) - fol237b (p.300,1)
• "The remaining texts a/// [are] contained in the second MS. of 42 additional folios and are as follows"
• "Bund. Queries"; references to West 13 (Vol. 13) serving an indexical purpose, missing folios noted in red
• copying history of the "Yas" MSS
• Selections of Zad-Sparam
• blue and red page numbers with line numbers
• "Dk. III"
• Eight Reading room request forms
• A copy of a snakes and ladders game with translations. Source of game unidentified

Description: Loose sheets, handwritten in ink and pencil, plus two article proofs with handwritten annotations.
Contents:

• Title page "Articles regarding Avesta & Pahlavi Texts by E.W.W. 1869-1896 with Index"
• Pahlavi letters and compounds occurring in the Pahlavi glossary
• "Alphabet from Inscriptions on Delhi Column"
• Inscription from a stone found near Devikapara
• "A short summary of the texts contained in the old Pahlavi Codex MK"
• "On the transliteration of Pahlavi" - 2 versions
• Notes on Zarathustra's doctrine regarding the Soul"
• "Parsee Prakāsh", handwritten and offprint
• "Merits of ceremonies, p.212-213"
• Proof copy for a text concerning the Pahlavi text of the Gāthas with handwritten annotations

Description: Loose folios, handwritten mainly in ink, some drawing on tracing papers.
Contents: A mixed collection of papers concerning glossaries, inscriptions, etc. including:

• "Pahlavi Kanheri Cave Inscriptions"
• Notes on the Iranian Pahlavi Rivāyat"
• Index folio 420a 5 to 427a 2
• "Alternative theory (to account for the Semitic words being all the commonest)"
• "Date of Marriage Contract in DJ and DP"
• "Ancient modification of the Sanskrit Alphabet"
• glossary
• "Names on Sasanian coins"
• "Bundahash index Nos. of words beginning with each letter and compound"
• "Glossary of Ancient Persian from Spiegel's Alt. Pers. Keillinschiften"
• "unusual words from Destur Roshangji's glossary to Shikand grammar"
• "Comparison of Zand alphabet "
• "In the Academy of September 7 (p.244) Mr Rogers announced the discovery of a number of papyri fragments..."
• Calculations concerning the observation of an eclipse
• "Transliteration of the original Persian text"
• "Javanisch" and "Pehlewi" alphabets - printed material
• "The Caslon Orientals" - printed scripts from H.W. Caslon and Co., London
• Other notes and tracings

"Pahlavi Literature by E.W.West" written for Iranische Philoloige Volume II. Printed proofs, pp. 65-144.

Proofs from Tehmuras Dinshaji Anklesaria's Dātistān-ī-Dīnīk - Pūrsishn I - XXXVII. Blue-green patterned soft cover, bound book with handwritten annotations and some handwritten inserts. On inside of the cover is written "Pahlavi text, The Datistan-i Dinik - partially corrected by E.W. West". The text was finally published by Anklesaria's son in 1910.

Proofs for a glossary of Pahlavi words with transliteration, subdivided into chapter I - XXIII, Appendices I-V. Loose folios with handwritten corrections and handwritten insert.

"An Engraved Stone with Pahlavi Inscription from Baghdâd" by E.W. West from Indian Antiquary, vol. xi, 1882. A proof copy with 2 proof copies of impressions from the engraved stone. And an offprint of the article.

"Proofs of Facsimile of the Naqsh-i Rastan Inscription published in the Indian Antiquary corrected by EW West". Four pages of proofs plus a tracing of "Ten Pahlavi signatures appended to copperplate Grant to a Syrian Church in Southern India of probably the first half of the ninth century A.D.". All within a blue paper folder with the title handwritten on it.

Proof copy of "Inscriptions around Crosses in South India" by E.W. West written for EPIGRAPHIA INDICA. No. 21. Printed material with handwritten annotations.