Description: Red-brown soft cover notebook, ruled pages, and handwritten in ink. Cover and several pages are loose. Multiple inserts. First page is stamped with a Bombay Education Society's Press mark, dated 6 August 1900. Identified as West 36 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "First Series of the Selections of Zad-Sparam" To C: Loose folios originating from book from pp. 1 - 20 contain Ch. I to IV, pp. 48 - 73 contain Ch. X - XVIII in the original Pahlavi and Transliterated. Loose folios with papers originating from different sources with the same text translated - pp. 29 - 47 [fol. no. 1 - 11] contain Ch. XII - XIX, fol. no. 11 -20 contain Ch. XX - XXIV.
Inserts: Scrap of paper with comparison of different Pahlavi scripts and scraps of paper serving an indexical purpose.
Note de Menasce description of this item appears to be inaccurate.

Description: Loose white and blue folios handwritten in pencil and ink. Identified as West 44 in de Menasce handlist'
Contents: Fragments of translations from the Kārnāmak i Ardašīr, Andarz, Pahlavi Vidẽvdāt and others plus "notes on Vendidad Kandahti".

Description: Large white ruled notebook, no covers, handwritten in ink and blue and red colour pencils. Identified as West 45 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Copy of the latter portion of the First Selections of Zad-sparam, Chapter XII - XXV, originally written at the end of the 9th Century. From Tehmuras's MS. G. which was written by Gopatashah Rustom Bandar in Kirman A.D. 1545 and is called T.K. in S.B.E. vol. XVIII, pp. xvi-xvii. Collated in blue pencil with BK,., a MS said to be in Dastur Jamaspji's Library in Bombay, mostly writen in Kirman and copied from K.35 which was written two generations later than G. in 1592" The copy was sent to West by T.D. Anklesaria in October 1896.

Inserts: scrap paper with different uses of "grace"

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.

Description: 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: 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

Correspondence between Edward William West and Darab Dastur Peshotan Sanjana, Tehmuras Dinshaji Anklesaria, and A.F. Rudolf Hoernle.

Fourteen items of correspondence from Darab Dastur Peshotan Sanjana to Edward William West. The topic of these letters are the translation of a Denkart, K43, and other questions about translation. The two exchange some of their texts during this period and Sanjana thanks West for helping with the collation of the discrepanies in Sanjana's late father's manuscript. Identified as part of West 57A in de Menasce handlist.

Letter from Tehmuras Dinshaji Anklesaria to Edward William West in which Tehmuras addresses some questions and thoughts he has about the collation of a copy of the Bundehesh he encountered in Persia. With the letter are several transcriptions:

• "Backside of the leaf 178 of the MS. Of Dastur Jamasjee Lines 16 - 21,"in which is inserted "Kolophon on DS. fol. 354 (N.2 on accompanying paper)"
• "No. 4 Leaf 190 of the MS. of Dastur G."
• "Duplicate cancelled", p.81-84
• Part of the "DS MS. with which T.D. is collated"