File EWW/1/32 - Dẽnkart Bk III continued from Vol.8

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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/32

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Dẽnkart Bk III continued from Vol.8

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  • [1844 - 1905] (Creation)

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1 notebook

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West Edward William 1824-1905

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Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, with multiple inserts. Identified as West 32 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: Denkart Bk. III continued from vol. 8 and completed to the end of Bk. III.

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  • Book Review of "The Dinkard, Vol VI." by Peshotan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana, Print from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Jan 1882 pp. 170-2
  • Translation of "Denkard (Acts of Religion), Book 3" by Peshotan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana pp. 555 - 78
  • Folios of transliteration and translation of "Dinkard Book III, last but one chapter - Pahlavi Text from the MS. B, written in 1659, and brought from Iran to Surat in 1783" note from EWW: "But from a copy supplied by Dastur D. Jamaspji , which I have been unable to collate with the original MS."
  • Folio with translation of "Dk III, chap. 261 (Peshotan, ed. trans. vol vi. p.405) and "The three Lunar Periods in Avesta, OC"
  • Folio with "Beginnings of Folios"
  • "Great Western Railway Suburban Timeline" of December 1882
  • scraps of paper with different translations and transliterations

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  • English
  • Pahlavi

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