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, 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: Red and blue patterned hardcover notebook with blue-tinted pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts, detailed table of contents and page numbers. Identified as West 11 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Kitab-i-Dron Yastan (from London 14)
• Kitab-i-Vazargird (from L. 24)
• Fragments of Sanskrit and Gujarati Yasna I. (from a MS. belonging to Max Muller)
• Introduction from Max Muller MS.
• "Flower of the Gulmor Tree" pressed in

Inserts:

• Paper that serves an index
• Some flowers and some leaves

Description: Large white unruled notebook, no cover, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 46 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi-English glossary. References are given in numbers referring, most likely, to volumes and pages of West's own copies (according to de Menasce's list).

Description: Loose white and blue folios handwritten in ink kept inside a paper folder. Identified as West 47 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Some of the commoner Huzvarish words with their etymology [in Hebrew], arranged alphabetically" "Eramji Dastur Sohrabji Meharji Rana's Huz. & Pahl. Farjang Bombay A.Y. 1238." "Alphabetical list of Huzvarish verbs"

Menasce suggest these are mostly copies of earlier works.

Description: Unbound white notebook handwritten in ink. Identified as West 48 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Pahlavi glossary with full references given to Pahlavi works designated by initials.

Description: Tracing paper held with string with several loose folios, handwritten in ink and pencil. Fragile. Identified as West 49 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Alphabetical Index of Westergaard's edition of the Bundehesh to which are added all the Pahlavi words occurring in the Old Pahlavi-Pazand and Zand-Pahlavi Glossaries".

Description: Blue and yellow patterned soft cover notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 50 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi Glossary. On the inside cover there is a list of all the sources used and their respective abbreviations. West also notes the words that don't appear in any glossary.

Description: Unbound notebook with loose folios from the same, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 51 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• A Pahlavi-English Glossary of V (Vendidad, Spiegel)
• W (Visparad Sp. as given in H. 6, see MS., vols. 3, p. 207)
• C = MS. vol. 3 (page and line ref. all words glossarized except those in list), from pp. 33 - 109, but afterwords only rare words
• M = MS. vol. 13, only rare words glossarized .

Inserts:

• Words to be omitted in Glossary
• Reference to Zend sentences
• Inscriptions of Cyrus
• list of Latin abbreviations commonly found in dictionaries