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, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. identified as West 1 from de Menasche handlist.

Contents:

• "Lord's prayer in Zand"
• London MSS., handwritten copy of L22 and folio level description of most folios ranging from L1 - L26
• Pazand Bundhašin from L22 with other miscellaneous passages from the same and a description of the MSS.
• Pahlavi introduction to Vishtasp Yasht from L5, Pahlabi Stayishwai Sirozah from L26, description of several volumes of MSS. from the East India Library.

Inserts:

• traced characters and sections from MSS.
• travel plans
• scrap of paper containing definitions
• folio titled "Zand translation of the Lord's Prayer by M. Hang, Ph.D"
• other miscellaneous papers containing calculations, notes, etc

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: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 3 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi Pandamak-I Buzung Mihir, from H16 and K29
• Pahalavi Karnamak-I Aradashir-I Papakan, from H15
• Pahalavi Rivayat, from H6, miscellaneous passage, gifts & qualities of 30 Yazads
• Pahlavi Pandnamak, from K29
• Pahlavi Bahman Yasht, from K29, answers of Aashna, the sage, to his disciple, the cursed abalish, Yasht fragments, Hadokcht Nask; Zand-Pahlavi Visparad, from H6
• Description of 21 Nasko extracted from a MS. of Dinik Vajarkand in Dr. Noshinvanji's Library at Poona
• On the Pahlavi Shahnamah MS. T. which is "Dastur Jamashji's copy of his ancester Dastur Jamshapji's copy of his own old MS. DJ"
• beginning of the Den Vicirkart (from the Poona MS. belonging to Dastur Hoshangji Jamaspji; the end is in vol. 19
• Introductions and Postscripts collected by Prof Geldner, received 1893

Inserts:

• list of MSS. described
• "Contents of Shayash-nashayash"
• descriptions, notes and summaries to other texts miscellaneous numerical calculations
• scraps of paper that serve an indexical purpose

Description: Dark green hardcover unruled notebook with blue pages handwritten in ink. Inserts held with strings. Identified as West 31 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Zand i Bahman Yast, a Pazand text
• "Contents of the Seventh Fargard of the Sidkhar Nask [Sutgar Nask] from the Dinkard, fol. 377 ab"
• "Contents of the Hadokht Nask from Dinkard, fol. 374b. - 375a" Transliteration and Translation

Inserts: folios with "Properties of Nitrogen" and a folio on Oxygen and loose folios that make Bahman Yasht in Middle Persian.

Description: Uncovered notebook. Ruled with white pages and handwritten in ink. One set of inserts. Identified as West 37 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Catalogue of an Indian Library; Jamaspik with full Gujarati colophon and table of contents; Videvdat with a Gujarati version.
Inserts: Two folios with "The Nasks" in Dinkard, Dinkard p.273, and those "cited in the Pahlavi Rivayat"

Description: White unruled loose folios, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 40 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A short overview on the sources of Nirangistan "(which begins with a portion of the Aerpatistan, the two being two sections of the first thirty of the Husparam), Nirangistan. Transcribed; Translation takes place on the first two pages, and the remaining pages all have the second half of the page empty, awaiting translation.

Inserts:

• Nirangistan with pencil markings and gap from pp. 2 - 6
• scraps of paper with "Passages in Niragistan, mentioning the Kadokha", "Indication of my Nir. MS. being independent. . .", "Nirangistan MS. p. 1" with short notes on collation and origins, Table of contents of Aerpatistan and Niranngistan, comparison of Westergaard's Nirangistan with Bombay MS., Beginning of "the Iranian text of the Nirangistan"
• folio from "the Rivayat of Hemid-i Asavahisthan (?) Pahl. Lit. 50 (Tehmuras's Letter of 1/12/94)", "copied from K41 by D. Anderson".

Description: Black soft cover notebook, ruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 41 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Detailed contents list of the Rivayat of Darab Hormazyar. The pages indicated are those of BU 29 (no. 29 of the Parsi MSS. in the Bombay University Library).

Inserts: De Menasce has inserted in this volume a concordance between the pagination of this MS and of some other, and the incipit and colophon of a Persian Rivayat written by an oriental hand. Also folios outlining the history of Parsis migration and settlement

Description: Loose folios within a blue soft cover. Identified as West 42 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Vishtasp Shanamah" A transcription and partial translation of the Ayatar I Zareran (cross-references are given to the text as copied in Vol. 13.) in the de Menasce list, written in pencil in the text is "Yadka-i-Zariran".