Translations from the Persian (and Arabic) by Rehatsek. Handwritten manuscript of 82 pages He has numbered the manuscript 1-21 which is reflected in Arbuthnot's titles on the paper cover - each number identifies a set of 4 pages which compose one sheet of paper. Rehattsek entitles the manuscript "Short anecdotes, stories and fables" and on the second side of sheet 7 he begins "The Merzuban namah". The manuscript is undated.

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: Green, blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook with blue pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string a, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 5 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• Persian Texts from Munich and Oxford including Dadar I Dadduxt
• "Contractions common in Persian MSS."
• Chods-Viraf namah from H28
• The five kinds of marriage and Ahriman's advice to aeshan from H5 Rivayat on yatha-ahu-vairyo, 101 names of god, the will of God and the devil, degrees of sin & good, the tomb of Chosherevan, meaning of some Z. prayers from L8
• Description of the 21 hasks, printed from P13
• Verse introduction and post-script to Sad-Dar Mazam, printed by Hyde
• Vocabulary of Pahlavi & Pazand words from O121 & O225
• Anushrvron's ascension to the throne, Sayings & doing of Anoshirevan, beginning of the tomb of Anoshirevan, from O225
• Indir namah from O30
• Parsi cosmogong, Definition of Sins, from O40
• Saugond namah, Rivayat on miscellaneous subjects from Lb8894

Inserts:

• "Risalah-i Mimi-khirad-i digar"
• "Fragments relatifs à la religion de Zoroaste, extraits de MSS. Persans de la Bibl. du Roi par Olhausen et Jules Mohl." [Trans. Fragments relating to Zoroastrianism, extracts from Persian MSS. from the Kings Library by Olshausen and Julius Mohl]
• Short note on King Dadar bin Dad-dukht on the supremacy of Persian science in relation to Greek ways of knowing

Description: Black and brown hardcover bound notebook with white pages. Handwritten in ink with detailed table of contents and page numbers. Inserts held in place with string. Identified as West 14 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Z.-Pahlavi. Citak i Avistak i Gasan from the old MS, H6
• Z.-Pahl. Khurshed Nyayish from the same
• Pazand Ashervad from H. fragments
• Pazand Ashirvada Irani from H21
• Gujarati in Devanagari, Names of planets and Zodiac signs, from H21
• Contents of Persia Rivayat H10 & in Bombay University Lib.

Inserts:

• "Hekatompylos" by A.D. Mordtmann
• Kitabi Wama'i Islam
• Colloquy between Zaratusht & Auharwazd regarding religion

Description: Black and brown hardcover bound notebook with white pages. Handwritten in ink with detailed table of contents and page numbers. Inserts held in place with string. Identified as West 15 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Continuation of contents of Rivayat MS. N. 29 (B29a) of Bombay University Library (continued from vol. 14. p. 241)
• On p.23: Az kitah-I Sadidar Nasan - Dan chihal u panjum in-kih [as in vol. 12 (West 12 or EWW/1/12), p.50, 51, see pencilled collation there]

Inserts:

• Copied from Prof. Goldman's letter 14 April 1885, following copies from E2 (modern Khurdah Avesta belonging to Dastur Edalju Darabji Rustamji Sanjana)
• A list of transliterated Sanskrit words with their meanings in English copied from "Wilson's Sanskrit Dictionary"
• "Sasanian Pahlavi Matrixes and Type"

Description: Matte black hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, page numbers. Identified as West 16 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Selected Contents of Haug's Persian Rivayat, H10, continued from Vol. 14, p. 161

Inserts:

• Scrap papers with calculations and numbers that serve an index

Description: Black hard cover notebook, unruled, with white pages, handwritten in ink. Inserts held by string. Identified as West 17 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Shkand gumanik vicar "from Dastur Hoshangji's Pazand Sanksrit MS. Collated with JJ. and J.135.
  *" Description of MS. Shikand Gumani and "JJ MS. of Shikand-gumanik Vijai."

Inserts:

• Scrap papers with differences on JJ and JE
• notes on omissions in West's copying
• notes for collation
• scrap papers serving indexical purpose
• list of "Not glossarized after Chap. V"
• list of "Not glossarized after Chap. XI, 145"

Description: Brown softcover notebook ruled with white pages handwritten in ink. Detailed table of contents.With insets. Identified as West 18 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Xortak Apastak transcribed from J.9
• "Contents of the M.S. J9 herein before copied"
• Notes on Sanjana's MS. Of Yasna
• Notes on Pt.4 and other Avestic MSS
• Notes on a MS. Belonging to F. F. Madun

Inserts:

• "Contents of Modern folios prefixed to supply deficiency in old MS."
• tracing paper with cursive Avestan
• "Introductory to Yasna Introduction in Pt. 4"
• Pahlavi statement copied in Pt. 4 (Pahl. Yasna)
• short notes on differences between original and copies
• scrap paper serving indexical purpose
• blotting paper
• folio with "Extract from the Pahlavi Introduction" and "A Colophon of Hoshan Sivyavakhah is preserved in Pers. Rivayah B29 dated A.Y. 847 (A.D. 1478) see vol 14. pp. 170, 171"
• folio with extract from "Pahlavi Afrinagam Gahantrai"

Description: Brown hardcover notebook unruled with white pages handwritten in ink. Detailed table of contents. With inserts. Identified as West 19 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Variants used for Vistasp Yast Sadah
• The Oersuab Zartust Namah (transliterated)
• Denik Vicirkart (continued from vol. 3 p 272) from JE
• Description of other texts contained in JE
• "From Dr. Wilson's Rivayat in the Earl of Crawford's library"
• Fragment of Patet i Aturpat and other short Pahlavi texts from MSS. in the same Library
• Colophons of various MSS (Sadat)

Inserts:

• folio titled "Contents of Dini-Vajarka"
• scrap paper with line count of different folios
• short notes on the fragments
• one-liner descriptions/translations of parts of Fragment III
• scrap paper with description of Dinkard Book III from Copenhagen, fragment of a translation (author, translator and source unknown), short factoid about Dastur Kaus Fredun Munajami, and other information serving indexical purpose
• scrap paper with translation (source and translator unknown) with corrections in red