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Description: Green brown patterned hardbound notebook with white pages, unruled, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 69 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• p.3 - 9" Ancient Persian, or Pahlavi words occurring in Richardson's Persian Dictionary"
• pp.11 - 17: notes on the Chaldean language, Assyrian language, from Rawlinson's "Ancient Monarchies"
• p19. "Type used in an Italian book, printed at Venice in March 1531."
• pp. 21 - 22: "List of Hindi plays, given by Prof. H. H. Wilson"
• pp. 23 - 47: "Pahlavi Vocabulary from Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta"
• pp. 49 - 51: "List of Zend & Pahlavi MSS. in E. I. Library, Westminster"
• pp. 51 - 68: Zend and Pahlavi alphabetic typefaces and style copied from different MSS from different libraries and people (i.e Dr. Haug, Rivayat 29a belonging to Bombay University)
• pp. 70 - 82: Phoenician script and its translations (copy of other works)
• pp. 82 - 88: Zand, Pahlavi, and Persian colophons "Colophon at end of Z. - Pahl. Glos. in N. (2) as given by Destur Hozhangji," "Extract from Dr. Haug's old MS.," "Extract from Fol. 114 or 130a, next following the end of the Zand glossary," several short extracts from K20
• pp. 90 - 2: Syriac and Mendaean alphabet from "Hoffman's Gramatica Syrica"
• Himyaritic alphabets
• "Irish alphabets from Higgin's Celtic Druids"
• "Electric Telegraph Alphabet"
• "List of Persian Verbs, from Mirza Muhammmed Ibrahim's Persian Grammar"
• Measures of the ancients, from Bunsen's
• 'Egypt's place in universal history'
• copy of different alphabets from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of France Vol. 1
• Parsi men's names from Bombay calendar
• Persian Cuneiform alphabet and other alphabets copied from various sources
• Abstract of the book of Enoch, from Archbishop Rich. Laurence's Translation

Description: Black hardbound leather notebook with ruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 70 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• British Museum Additional Oriental MS. 22,379 Vocabulary Pahl.-Z.-Pers.
• Persian couplets from the same; description of content and objects in the Ouseley Collection (i.e. Bundahish)
• copied from "Pahlavi inscriptions . . . By Mordtmann from ZDMG Vol. 18, p.1 - 52 1864. . . . quoting Thomas JRAS Vol.13 and others.
• coins with Pahlavi inscription "of Subordinate kings of Persian provinces under the Seleucidie from Alexander the Great" copied from Dr. M.A. Levy's article in ZDMG Vol 21, p.421 - 465, 1867
• Description and excerpt from the British Museum "MSS Reg.16. B.V., Yasna Sadah (Hyde's MS)
• "Darmester's notes and copy of the Vaetha fargard of the Nihadum Nask" from Journal Asiatique (1886) pp. 182 - 6
• Sketch of the Karnamak-i Artakhati-i Papkan
• Burnell's "On Some Pahlavi Inscriptions in South India"
• "French Republican Calendar" from 1793
• Notes of the Literary Remains of Emmanuel Deutsch
• Notes on some books with relevance to the study of Persia and Zoroastrianism
• Notes from Alfred von Gustchnid's Geschilte Irans und seinen Nachbarlanden von Alexander dem Grossen bis zim intergang der Arsaciden
• "Plutarch de Isde et Osiride" trans. by Gustv Parthey
• A page on the Portinigal Yew

Inserts:

• folio stuck to page titled "Alphabet corresponds closely with those in B29 and K25, with a few differences:"
• Reading room request forms
• scraps of paper serving an indexical purpose to other articles or MSS "to-do" list
• folio with list of books pertaining to the Talmud and Judaism
• two scraps of papers with "Inscriptiones Paleo-Persicae Achemendiarum, primus edidit et explicavit, by Dr. Cajetanus Kossowicz, Petropoli, 1872"
• summary of Salemann's Ueber ein Paresenhandschrift (1879)

Description: Green-black patterned hardbound notebook with ruled blue pages, handwritten in ink. Single insert.

Contents:

• Multiple glossaries with some combination of English, Pahlavi, and Persian (pp.1-8)
• Notes and Summaries from different Das Land und sein Bewohner Erster Theil, Lepizig, 1865. (pp. 8 - 17)
• "Notes on Persia, from the Popular Encyclopedia on Conversations Lexicon" (pp. 18 - 42)
• "Vocabulary of the Dialects of Mazanderan and Ghilan (M & G) with the local pronunciation" by G. Melgounof in 1860, ZDMG xxii (pp. 43 - 66)
• "Content of Shahnamah, from Jas Atkinson's Translation, India, 1832" (pp. 67 - 72)
  *"Names in Shahnamah, besides the principle ones in the Contents" (pp. 73 - 79)
• "Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East" (pp. 81 - 3)
• "Transliteration adopted for Avesta and Pahlavi Alphabets" (p. 84)
• Summary of "Mujuru-dh-dhahhabi va Ma'adinu-l-jauhari" by Abu-l-Hasan Ali (pp.87 - 98)
• Summary of article from ZDMG by A. Houtum-Schindler regarding Parsi population (pp. 99)
• Words used by Persian Parsis, which differ from common Persian" (pp. 99 - 119)

Inserts:

• scrap of paper with scientific names and common names of different plants and animals
• tracing paper stuck into notebook. Engraving on antique cup copied down. Cup "found on the western frontier of Persia"

Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.

Contents:

• "Headings of Sections of Shanamah from Macan's edition, Calcutta 1829"
• Pahlavi-transliterated-Persian words where some have folio and MS. numbers; short unorganized notes on Pahlavi and Persian grammar
• summary of article by Professor Terrein de Lacouperie in the "Academy" from 10 Oct. 1885, p.243-4 #
• notes on inscriptions and their locations in libraries
• notes on printing and correcting proofs calculations relating to the sun, moon, and the earth
• notes on different coins
• "Period of Gestation in Various animals, in days"
• short note and summary of different eras in different cultures according to different theories of creation
• notes from reading a "Review of History of India as told by its own historians" from 'Academy' 11 Sep 1886.

Inserts:

• Scraps of paper with a short glossary with word meanings in English and a note on the population of Parsis in different parts of the world
• transliteration of a Pahlavi excerpt
• Reading room request form

Description: Green-brown patterned hardbound notebook with unruled blue pages, handwritten in ink. Single insert.
Contents: Numerals and days of the week in English, Hindustani, Marathi, and Gujurati with a short explanation on the same in English. Unfinished list of word meanings in Hindustani, Marathi, Gujurati, and English.

Description: Four thin unbound notebooks, handwritten in ink.
Contents:

• "Text and Translation of Assyrian Inscriptions [into German], as given by Prof. E. Schrader"
• "Glossary of the Assyrian Inscriptions of Cyrus, Darius (at Bistun, Naksh-I Rustam, Persepolis, Elvend), Xerxes (at Persepolis, Elvend, Van) and Artaxerxes (in Sersa, etc).- Prof. E. Schrader in Giessen. DMGZ Vol .26. p370 - 386 1872"
• "Ancient Persian Cuneiform Inscription from the Isthmus of Suez" Includes a glossary and translation of some words
• "Latin Translation of the Gathas by Prof: Haug 1858-60"

Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with ruled white pages, handwritten in ink.
Contents: "Habits des Parsis", chapters I-X (X incomplete, continued in EWW/1/74).

Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with ruled white pages handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with brass paper clips.

Contents:

• Continuation of "Habits des Parsis"
• "List of the Parsi Ceremonial apparatus collected by Professor Haug in India"
• Summary of a section of "The Chronology of Nations"

Description: Thin black softcover notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.
Contents: Professor Ferdinand Justi's Essay "On the Life and Legend of Zoroaster"
Inserts: A folio serving an indexical purpose to Denkart, and a further folio with German-English translation.

Description: Black hardbound leather notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.

Contents:
Copy of Anquetil-du Perron's Zend-Avesta Vol 2., section "Bound-dehesch"

• Mordtmann's Chronology of the Sasanian dynasty" which was later corrected when an updated article came in ZDMG in 1881
• "[F.] Justi's translation of the Bundehesh" copy of a small part of Der Bundehesh

Inserts:

• folio titled "Wanted two small books" with detailed descriptions of the two books
• newspaper clipping from "The Academy" from 10 August 1878