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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/11 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Red and blue patterned hardcover notebook with blue-tinted pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts, detailed table of contents and page numbers. Identified as West 11 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

  • Kitab-i-Dron Yastan (from London 14)
  • Kitab-i-Vazargird (from L. 24)
  • Fragments of Sanskrit and Gujarati Yasna I. (from a MS. belonging to Max Muller)
  • Introduction from Max Muller MS.
  • "Flower of the Gulmor Tree" pressed in

Inserts:

  • Paper that serves an index
  • Some flowers and some leaves
West Edward William 1824-1905
A Pahlavi glossary
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/50 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Blue and yellow patterned soft cover notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 50 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi Glossary. On the inside cover there is a list of all the sources used and their respective abbreviations. West also notes the words that don't appear in any glossary.

West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/56 · File · [1866]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Black hard cover notebook with unruled pages, written in ink. Some inserts. Identified as West 58 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Observations of Germany Drawings of two buildings in Germany with structural descriptors (i.e. size, width, height) "Atlantic cable of 1866" progress table with distance and percentage covered "Guesses at the meaning of 666, quoted by Professor DeMorgan from Mr. David Thom's 'The number and names of Apocalyptic Beasts' Part I, 1848, 8vo A Pahlavi Glossary in transcription with some translation and sparse references

West Edward William 1824-1905
A Pahlavi-English glossary
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/46 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Large white unruled notebook, no cover, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 46 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi-English glossary. References are given in numbers referring, most likely, to volumes and pages of West's own copies (according to de Menasce's list).

West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/51 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Unbound notebook with loose folios from the same, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 51 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

  • A Pahlavi-English Glossary of V (Vendidad, Spiegel)
  • W (Visparad Sp. as given in H. 6, see MS., vols. 3, p. 207)
  • C = MS. vol. 3 (page and line ref. all words glossarized except those in list), from pp. 33 - 109, but afterwords only rare words
  • M = MS. vol. 13, only rare words glossarized .

Inserts:

  • Words to be omitted in Glossary
  • Reference to Zend sentences
  • Inscriptions of Cyrus
  • list of Latin abbreviations commonly found in dictionaries
West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/52 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

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.
West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/49 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Tracing paper held with string with several loose folios, handwritten in ink and pencil. Fragile. Identified as West 49 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Alphabetical Index of Westergaard's edition of the Bundehesh to which are added all the Pahlavi words occurring in the Old Pahlavi-Pazand and Zand-Pahlavi Glossaries".

West Edward William 1824-1905
An Avestic glossary
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/57 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Blue and green patterned hard cover notebook with unruled blue pages, written in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 59 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: An Avestic glossary transliterated, with sparse references.
Inserts: folios with "Contents of [Pahlavi] Exercise Book" and "Letters in Codex Hogberg B, folio G recto, which resemble Pahlavi letters" folio with summary of "Alberuni" with summary referencing page numbers and notes from "La religion Persan sous les Achemednides" scrap papers serving indexical purposes

West Edward William 1824-1905