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Pahlavi Dinkard
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/7 · 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 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?"
West Edward William 1824-1905
Pages from Epigraphia Indica
GB 891 EWW-EWW/3-EWW/3/8 · File · 1882 - 1905
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Pages from Epigraphia Indica covering Kharepatan Plates of Rattaraja, Verawal Image Inscription, Sitabaldi Inscription of the Time of Vikramaditya VI, Tigbundi Plates of the Time of Vikramaditya VI, and India Office Plate of Vijayarajadeva". Pages 292 - 315. Also includes a black and white photograph of fragments of inscriptions.

GB 891 HME-HME/1-HME/1/6 · File · [1827-1853]
Part of Papers of Sir Henry Miers Elliot

Loose printed pages, including:

  • pp.109-110, and two duplicate copies, of the Supplemental Glossary for the North West Provinces (N.W.P), describing the various strands of the Bunjara community.
  • pp.231-232 of the Supplemental Glossary for the North West Provinces, with glossary definitions in various dialects and their translations and descriptions in English. Begins 'Dhooh'/'Dhuh' and ends 'Dhora'.