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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 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 brown patterned hardcover notebook with blue pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string a, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 5 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• Persian Texts from Munich and Oxford including Dadar I Dadduxt
• "Contractions common in Persian MSS."
• Chods-Viraf namah from H28
• The five kinds of marriage and Ahriman's advice to aeshan from H5 Rivayat on yatha-ahu-vairyo, 101 names of god, the will of God and the devil, degrees of sin & good, the tomb of Chosherevan, meaning of some Z. prayers from L8
• Description of the 21 hasks, printed from P13
• Verse introduction and post-script to Sad-Dar Mazam, printed by Hyde
• Vocabulary of Pahlavi & Pazand words from O121 & O225
• Anushrvron's ascension to the throne, Sayings & doing of Anoshirevan, beginning of the tomb of Anoshirevan, from O225
• Indir namah from O30
• Parsi cosmogong, Definition of Sins, from O40
• Saugond namah, Rivayat on miscellaneous subjects from Lb8894

Inserts:

• "Risalah-i Mimi-khirad-i digar"
• "Fragments relatifs à la religion de Zoroaste, extraits de MSS. Persans de la Bibl. du Roi par Olhausen et Jules Mohl." [Trans. Fragments relating to Zoroastrianism, extracts from Persian MSS. from the Kings Library by Olshausen and Julius Mohl]
• Short note on King Dadar bin Dad-dukht on the supremacy of Persian science in relation to Greek ways of knowing

Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, hand written in ink, inserts held in place with string and brass paperclips, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 2 in de Menasche handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi & Pazand Shikhand-gumani (first part), from L15,23
• End of Pahlavi Rivayat, from L15
• Pahlavi Patet-I Khud, from the same
• Pahlavi duties of ameshaspends, from the same
• Pahalvi Gosht-I Fryano, from the same
• Pazand Patet-I Adarbad Mardspend, from the same
• Pazand-Sankstrit Minokhand, from L19 with commentary on the condition of the original text, its discrepancies and its mixture of lanuages
• Copy of the Buwahirin Fragment
• "Collation of the OW portion of the 2 & PW"
• Zand-Pahlavi prayers & miyayish, from L12 Inserts: Pahlavi version of the Yatha Ahi Vairyo rayer from the London E.I. Library
• Indexical information
• Transcript of Pazand Menok-i-Xrat from London
• MSS Shayast-ne-Sayast from London MSS

Inserts:

• Pahlavi version of the Yatha Ahi Vairyo rayer from the London E.I. Library,
• plastic indexical information newspaper clipping on "The Lost Canon of Berosus"
• miscellaneous numerical calculations

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 6 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• Pahlavi Denkard, from H13a ("no more copied, as I have another complete copy that collates with the most original MS. In Bombay, H13 and all other Bombay copies are derived)
• Two versions of Bahman Yasht
• Jamaspi [MS.]
• Ahktami-I Jamasp Hakim
• Afrim-I Zanatusht, Persian
• Du'a-i Bahran-i Vanjanand, Pazand
• Du'a-i Hushidan Bahram Vanjanand
• Du'a-i Ham Stayishu kih Ba'd az hyayish u Yashit mi khevanand ba ma'ni navisam
• Du'a-i ham-stagishni Paz-Pers.
• Other Rivayat texts
• Dia Kas Bk VI end and VII.
• Ulama i Islama (all from MSS. in the Library of the University of Bombay)

• Denkart Bk. VI end (pp. 585, line 17 to 590 in Madan's edition). Fragment from Denkart Bk. VII.

  Inserts:

• scraps of papers with numbers referencing books and personal papers, miscellaneous calculations, word meanings;
• "E.W. West's Transcript of the Pahlavi Denkard, Book VI" a note seemingly about an exhibition on West in "the [Royal Asiatic] Society"
• torn financial documents from "The Machinery Trust Limited" used to note calculations and page numbers in Pahlavi Texts.

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 4 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• Copies from London and Munich MSS.
• Pazand Shikhand-gumdni, latter part from H19
• Parsi Gosht-I Fryano, from H7
• Persian extract, from P12, 15, quoted by Spiege
• Parsee Bundahish (fragment) from H9
• Parsee the accursed abalish from H7, misc., Jamasp namah
• Pahlavi Jamasp: copy of transcript from Saujana's MSS.
• Pazand and Zand Nirangs from H21
  *, Pazand-Sanskrit Marriage Formula
• Pazand Para Dabirastan from H22, Bahman Yasht, names of constellations
• Pazand-Sanskrit Aogemadhae from H21, Introduction to Arda Vinafnawak from Dest., Parsi Conversation about religion between Aurmazad & Zaratusht
• Parsi Pandnmaha from H7
• Parsi-Zand Vaj-i Avista in Zand from H7
• Persian remarks aobut the khedyodat from H7
• Parsi remarks about the ressurection from H7,
• Parsi genealogy of Zanatusht
• Zand-Pahlavi fragment Vend. VIII, from H19
• Persian extracts from Rivayats regarding Slaughter of Animals from H19
• Pazand Rivayat of Kamadin Shapur
• Sanskrit-Shikhand-gumani and Persian-Shikhandi-gumani, two fragments each from Prof. Max Muller's MS.("now in India Office building in the library")

Inserts:

• "Dastur Jamapji Minocheharji's address"
• "Contents of Dadistan Codex"
• Copy of a rare "Pahlavi Jamasp-namak" MS. with description of missing passages/sections and a key to reading his markings in the copy.