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Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. identified as West 1 from de Menasche handlist.

Contents:

• "Lord's prayer in Zand"
• London MSS., handwritten copy of L22 and folio level description of most folios ranging from L1 - L26
• Pazand Bundhašin from L22 with other miscellaneous passages from the same and a description of the MSS.
• Pahlavi introduction to Vishtasp Yasht from L5, Pahlabi Stayishwai Sirozah from L26, description of several volumes of MSS. from the East India Library.

Inserts:

• traced characters and sections from MSS.
• travel plans
• scrap of paper containing definitions
• folio titled "Zand translation of the Lord's Prayer by M. Hang, Ph.D"
• other miscellaneous papers containing calculations, notes, etc

Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 3 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi Pandamak-I Buzung Mihir, from H16 and K29
• Pahalavi Karnamak-I Aradashir-I Papakan, from H15
• Pahalavi Rivayat, from H6, miscellaneous passage, gifts & qualities of 30 Yazads
• Pahlavi Pandnamak, from K29
• Pahlavi Bahman Yasht, from K29, answers of Aashna, the sage, to his disciple, the cursed abalish, Yasht fragments, Hadokcht Nask; Zand-Pahlavi Visparad, from H6
• Description of 21 Nasko extracted from a MS. of Dinik Vajarkand in Dr. Noshinvanji's Library at Poona
• On the Pahlavi Shahnamah MS. T. which is "Dastur Jamashji's copy of his ancester Dastur Jamshapji's copy of his own old MS. DJ"
• beginning of the Den Vicirkart (from the Poona MS. belonging to Dastur Hoshangji Jamaspji; the end is in vol. 19
• Introductions and Postscripts collected by Prof Geldner, received 1893

Inserts:

• list of MSS. described
• "Contents of Shayash-nashayash"
• descriptions, notes and summaries to other texts miscellaneous numerical calculations
• scraps of paper that serve an indexical purpose

Description: Green, blue and pink pattered hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 7 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi Din-kard (fragments) from H13a, loose folios 389-90, 399-400, 402-411 of DS, description of MSS. DR & DS
• Multiple folios from Pahlavi Dinkard book 1st from Bombay Govt. MS. at Deccan College
• "Pahlavi text of Menok-i-Xrat copied from a fascimile of the old codex brought from Persia by the Westergaard in 1843-4
• A description of the DS of Denkart
• Persian colophon to M13a (Haug's MS. of Dinkard, IV - IX)
• "Differences between the old Pahl. and Paz. texts of mkh"
• Denkart Bk. III down to ch. 123 (Sanjana = Madan p. 119), copied from a copy belonging to the Bombay Government, collated with D.S.
• The lost folios from Hoshang's Denkart MS
• Denkart Bk. VIII continued
  *. Menok i Xrat from the Kopenhagen MS
• Beginning of Denkart Bk. VIII

Inserts:

• "Nouvelle Acquisitions de Manuscrits Pehlevis A Kopenhague" in Print by E.W West and "Recent additions to the Pahlavi manuscripts at Kopenhagen" handwritten by E.W. West; a note and description of missing folios (pp. 46-47)
• scrap of paper with original script and transliteration
• single folio written in Pahlavi script, ink with a signature in the arabic script
• envelope with notes
• notes on "the scanty information of Bukht-marare" written on the cover of the RASJ Part 1, dated 1900
• A description of The Dinkard, Vols VIII & IX, by Pehstan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana and a note to other Pahlavi scholars on research yet to be done written on ruled loose folios
• small loose folios with an "Estimate of words in books 3 - 9 of Dinkard" and estimate number of words in Haug's copy of Dinkard
• small loose folio titled "Colophons of Professor Haug's Dinkart"
• folio with a slightly illegible passage with questions like: "Any further folios of Dinkard?"

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

Description: Black and brown hardcover bound notebook with white pages. Handwritten in ink with detailed table of contents and page numbers. Inserts held in place with string. Identified as West 14 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Z.-Pahlavi. Citak i Avistak i Gasan from the old MS, H6
• Z.-Pahl. Khurshed Nyayish from the same
• Pazand Ashervad from H. fragments
• Pazand Ashirvada Irani from H21
• Gujarati in Devanagari, Names of planets and Zodiac signs, from H21
• Contents of Persia Rivayat H10 & in Bombay University Lib.

Inserts:

• "Hekatompylos" by A.D. Mordtmann
• Kitabi Wama'i Islam
• Colloquy between Zaratusht & Auharwazd regarding religion

Description: Black soft cover notebook, ruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 29 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Transliteration and Translation of the Pahlavi version of Yasna XXXII, the fifth Chapter of the first Gatha" with an "Introduction" and "Concluding Remarks".

Description: Dark green hard cover, unruled white and blue pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts. The contents start in the book and continue on to ordered inserts. Other inserts also included. Identified as West 30 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: The "Selections of Zat Sparam." Transliteration and translation.

Inserts:

• Continuation of the text
• folio with different Pahlavi letters related to red markings of Ch 1, 12, and 13 of Kn MS
• folio with words in Dk. and Persian
• folios serving indexical purpose
• folio with syllable count calculation
• folio with translation of "Dk. V.i, 9"
• folio with translation of "332 - 339 fol 357 - 356"
• folio with summary of Vol. 10
• scrap papers with fragments of translation and possibly word meanings
• an academic to-do list
• "Explanation of missing folios"

Description: Softcover green notebook with "EXERCISE BOOK" written on the cover, with ruled pages, handwritten in ink, multiple inserts. Identified as West 35 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: "Traditions of Zaratusht of Pahlavi MS by E.W. West" catalogued under No. CCXXVIII. with annotations that note missing folios; pp15 - 17: A short note on "Traditions of Zaratusht" and its importance for Zoroastrian Studies being an orignal MS. from Iran. Along with this there is also a note by de Mensace added in 5/4/1949 locating the MS and commenting on its current use.

Inserts:

• Folio with calculations of number of lines per page
• 8 folios titled "Memoranda of 52 Oriental Manuscripts, from Bombay, catalogued by Edward G. Browne Esquire of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and classified as follows:- 18 Zoroastrian MSS. 28 Persian MSS. 4 Arabic MSS. and 2 Hindustani MSS."
• Folio with "Sins worthy of death" [semi-translation] by E.W.W. on June 16th 1902
• folio with list of short summaries of events that take place from 266, 7 to 292,
• 11 scraps of paper with calculations pertaining to number folios, lines, etc.
• Folio with drafts of introduction remarking on his work of collation of the modern MSS with older MS
• Supplementary note similar to note on pp 15 - 17
• "Index to the folios of the Iranian Pahlavi Rivayat. Missing folios in red ink" and a "continuation [of notes] form page 4"

Description: Black soft cover notebook, ruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 41 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Detailed contents list of the Rivayat of Darab Hormazyar. The pages indicated are those of BU 29 (no. 29 of the Parsi MSS. in the Bombay University Library).

Inserts: De Menasce has inserted in this volume a concordance between the pagination of this MS and of some other, and the incipit and colophon of a Persian Rivayat written by an oriental hand. Also folios outlining the history of Parsis migration and settlement