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

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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/67

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Extracts and notes from readings on Iranian subjects

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  • 1867 (Creation)

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1 notebook

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West Edward William 1824-1905

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Royal Asiatic Society Archives

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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

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  • German
  • Avestan
  • Persian

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