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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/52
Title
A Pahlavi-English glossary with full references to Dẽnkart Bks VII-IX
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- [1844 - 1905] (Creation)
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1 notebook
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Description: Brown hardcover notebook, unruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 52 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- "Most valuable notes as regards to 'Dinkard,' etc
*." A Pahlavi-English Glossary with full references to Denkart Bks. VII - IX - "Pazand Texts prepared by Dastur Hoshangji"
Inserts:
- several folios and scraps of paper containing calculations on lines and number of words, rough drafts of paragraphs of future essays, fragments of translation, word meanings, "additional Huzvarish words"
- additional Hebrew-Huzvarish words;
- "notes from Prof. M. J. Muller's 'Essai en la Langue Pehlive,' Paris 1839"
- omission of words from glossary, diagram that seems like a map to a library or a possible ordering of books or a potential reading method; Some of the inserts in the latter part of the book are loose pages.
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- English
- Pahlavi
- Hebrew
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- West Edward William 1824-1905 (Subject)