Description: Green and red patterned hard cover notebook with unruled blue pages, written in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 61 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: An Avestic-English glossary in transcription.
Inserts: Inserts are further glossary sheets, some of which pages that have become detached from the notebook.
Description: White hard cover notebook with unruled pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts. Identified as West 62 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Pahlavi and Zand characters, compounds, vowels, consonants transliteration with original of "Commencement of the Pehlavi Bundehesh, perhaps of the 7th Centurty" which is then translated in the subsequent pages "The following transcript contains the text of the Yasna, Visparad & Vendidad mingled together in the usual order. The text of the Yasna has been compared throughout with the text in Gujarati characters of Aspandiji Framji . . ."
Inserts: folio serving an indexical purpose to the Yasn folios of linguistic study
This material is continued in EWW/1/61 and EWW/1/62.
Sin títuloDescription: Green hard cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 63 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Continuation of West 62 (EWW/1/60). "The following transcript contains the text of the Yasna, Visparad & Vendidad mingled together in the usual order. The text of the Yasna has been compared throughout with the text in Gujarati characters of Aspandiji Framji . . ."
Description: Purple blue and grey patterned hard cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with string. Identified as West 64 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Continuation of West 62 and 63 (EWW/1/60 and EWW/1/61).
Inserts: scraps of paper with "copy of Zend from words Journal As. Soc. Vol. 4".
Description: Blue-green patterned hard cover note book with blue ruled pages handwritten in ink and pencil. Several inserts. Identified as West 65 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "The 'Yasna' from the Gujarati transcript of Aspandiarji Framji . . . Printed in Bombay in 1218 of Yazdagard" This translation from Pahlavi to Gujurati was certified by "Dozabhai Jamshedji under the date 5 July 1849 A.D.) (A.D. 1850): English translation, including the rubrics, with notes on the textual variants.
Inserts: Note and an excerpt "[f]rom Dr. J. Burgess's letter Oct. 17th. 1898"
Sin títuloDescription: Blue-green patterned hard cover note book with blue ruled pages, handwritten in ink and pencil. Several inserts. Identified as West 66 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Continuation of West 66; Extracts with translation of Framji's appendix.
Inserts:
- folio with folio numbers of the Yasna with possibly sentence long summaries of sets of folios
- folio with "Yasna XXVII" with word and idiom meanings
- scrap of paper with "ta," "da," etc.
- scrap of paper with possibly folio numbers
Description: Brown hardcover notebook with white ruled pages, handwritten in pencil and ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 67 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Extracts and notices from readings on Iranian and Indian Subjects
- Ferguson's Illustrations of Rock-cut temples of India
- Translations by Captain Fell of Sanskrit I
- Dr. Haug's Zand, Pahlavi and Pazand MSS
- Anquetil-Duperron's account of his MSS
- MSS in East India Library, London = L
- MSS in British Museum Library, London = L. b.
- MSS in Bibliotheque Imperiale de Paris = P
- MSS in Bodleaine & Radcliffe libraries at Oxford = O.b. & O.r
- MSS. of Burnouf, Wilson, Westegaard, Mullah Firur, etc
- Notes on MSS of Zand texts from Westergaard's preface to Zend-Avesta
- Summaries of inscriptions and articles from different Asiatic journals and books ("Ker Porters Travels," "Asiatic researcher," "Journal. Asiatique," "Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society," "Histoire genereal des Voyage" Vol 1 & 3. by Prevost)
- Summary and transcription from some "Zand & Pahlavi MSS. at Kopenhagen University Library
- E. Thompson's transcript of two Inscription at Persepolis" J.R.A.S 1868 pp.355 - 6
- Pahlavi Grammar
- Greek inscriptions
Description: Red hardbound notebook with ruled white pages handwritten in ink. Identified as West 68 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A short Sanskrit-English glossary
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)