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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/4 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

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.
West Edward William 1824-1905 Engineer and Orientalist Scholar
Part of Denkart, Bk. IV
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/6 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

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.
West Edward William 1824-1905 Engineer and Orientalist Scholar
Pazand Shikhand-gumani
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/2 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

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
West Edward William 1824-1905 Engineer and Orientalist Scholar
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/5 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

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
West Edward William 1824-1905 Engineer and Orientalist Scholar
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/3 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

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
West Edward William 1824-1905 Engineer and Orientalist Scholar