File EWW/1/67 - Extracts and notes from readings on Iranian subjects

Description: Green brown patterned hardbound notebook with white pages, unruled, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 69 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• p.3 - 9" Ancient Persian, or Pahlavi words occurring in Richardson's Persian Dictionary"
• pp.11 - 17: notes on the Chaldean language, Assyrian language, from Rawlinson's "Ancient Monarchies"
• p19. "Type used in an Italian book, printed at Venice in March 1531."
• pp. 21 - 22: "List of Hindi plays, given by Prof. H. H. Wilson"
• pp. 23 - 47: "Pahlavi Vocabulary from Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta"
• pp. 49 - 51: "List of Zend & Pahlavi MSS. in E. I. Library, Westminster"
• pp. 51 - 68: Zend and Pahlavi alphabetic typefaces and style copied from different MSS from different libraries and people (i.e Dr. Haug, Rivayat 29a belonging to Bombay University)
• pp. 70 - 82: Phoenician script and its translations (copy of other works)
• pp. 82 - 88: Zand, Pahlavi, and Persian colophons "Colophon at end of Z. - Pahl. Glos. in N. (2) as given by Destur Hozhangji," "Extract from Dr. Haug's old MS.," "Extract from Fol. 114 or 130a, next following the end of the Zand glossary," several short extracts from K20
• pp. 90 - 2: Syriac and Mendaean alphabet from "Hoffman's Gramatica Syrica"
• Himyaritic alphabets
• "Irish alphabets from Higgin's Celtic Druids"
• "Electric Telegraph Alphabet"
• "List of Persian Verbs, from Mirza Muhammmed Ibrahim's Persian Grammar"
• Measures of the ancients, from Bunsen's
• 'Egypt's place in universal history'
• copy of different alphabets from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of France Vol. 1
• Parsi men's names from Bombay calendar
• Persian Cuneiform alphabet and other alphabets copied from various sources
• Abstract of the book of Enoch, from Archbishop Rich. Laurence's Translation