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GB 891 QW-QW/9-QW/9/2 · File · 1927
Part of Papers of Horace Geoffrey Quaritch Wales

Album, hardcover, black, labelled "Extracts & Cuttings Volume II, Bangkok 1927" containing newspaper cuttings, B/W photographs and invitations; includes news of birth and presentation of white elephant. It includes the letter from King Rama VII inviting Quaritch Wales to court dinner dances on 1st January 1924 and 26 February 1926; a letter to ask Quaritch Wales to join the Coronation day on 12 November 1925 and to join the lunch at Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall. Contains also news regarding the white elephant from 14-17 November 1927. Some articles have been cut from the album and some photographs removed.

GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/68 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Black hardbound leather notebook with ruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 70 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

  • British Museum Additional Oriental MS. 22,379 Vocabulary Pahl.-Z.-Pers.
  • Persian couplets from the same; description of content and objects in the Ouseley Collection (i.e. Bundahish)
  • copied from "Pahlavi inscriptions . . . By Mordtmann from ZDMG Vol. 18, p.1 - 52 1864. . . . quoting Thomas JRAS Vol.13 and others.
  • coins with Pahlavi inscription "of Subordinate kings of Persian provinces under the Seleucidie from Alexander the Great" copied from Dr. M.A. Levy's article in ZDMG Vol 21, p.421 - 465, 1867
  • Description and excerpt from the British Museum "MSS Reg.16. B.V., Yasna Sadah (Hyde's MS)
  • "Darmester's notes and copy of the Vaetha fargard of the Nihadum Nask" from Journal Asiatique (1886) pp. 182 - 6
  • Sketch of the Karnamak-i Artakhati-i Papkan
  • Burnell's "On Some Pahlavi Inscriptions in South India"
  • "French Republican Calendar" from 1793
  • Notes of the Literary Remains of Emmanuel Deutsch
  • Notes on some books with relevance to the study of Persia and Zoroastrianism
  • Notes from Alfred von Gustchnid's Geschilte Irans und seinen Nachbarlanden von Alexander dem Grossen bis zim intergang der Arsaciden
  • "Plutarch de Isde et Osiride" trans. by Gustv Parthey
  • A page on the Portinigal Yew

Inserts:

  • folio stuck to page titled "Alphabet corresponds closely with those in B29 and K25, with a few differences:"
  • Reading room request forms
  • scraps of paper serving an indexical purpose to other articles or MSS "to-do" list
  • folio with list of books pertaining to the Talmud and Judaism
  • two scraps of papers with "Inscriptiones Paleo-Persicae Achemendiarum, primus edidit et explicavit, by Dr. Cajetanus Kossowicz, Petropoli, 1872"
  • summary of Salemann's Ueber ein Paresenhandschrift (1879)
West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/67 · File · 1867
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Green brown patterned hardbound notebook with white pages, unruled, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 69 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

  • p.3 - 9" Ancient Persian, or Pahlavi words occurring in Richardson's Persian Dictionary"
  • pp.11 - 17: notes on the Chaldean language, Assyrian language, from Rawlinson's "Ancient Monarchies"
  • p19. "Type used in an Italian book, printed at Venice in March 1531."
  • pp. 21 - 22: "List of Hindi plays, given by Prof. H. H. Wilson"
  • pp. 23 - 47: "Pahlavi Vocabulary from Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta"
  • pp. 49 - 51: "List of Zend & Pahlavi MSS. in E. I. Library, Westminster"
  • pp. 51 - 68: Zend and Pahlavi alphabetic typefaces and style copied from different MSS from different libraries and people (i.e Dr. Haug, Rivayat 29a belonging to Bombay University)
  • pp. 70 - 82: Phoenician script and its translations (copy of other works)
  • pp. 82 - 88: Zand, Pahlavi, and Persian colophons "Colophon at end of Z. - Pahl. Glos. in N. (2) as given by Destur Hozhangji," "Extract from Dr. Haug's old MS.," "Extract from Fol. 114 or 130a, next following the end of the Zand glossary," several short extracts from K20
  • pp. 90 - 2: Syriac and Mendaean alphabet from "Hoffman's Gramatica Syrica"
  • Himyaritic alphabets
  • "Irish alphabets from Higgin's Celtic Druids"
  • "Electric Telegraph Alphabet"
  • "List of Persian Verbs, from Mirza Muhammmed Ibrahim's Persian Grammar"
  • Measures of the ancients, from Bunsen's
  • 'Egypt's place in universal history'
  • copy of different alphabets from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of France Vol. 1
  • Parsi men's names from Bombay calendar
  • Persian Cuneiform alphabet and other alphabets copied from various sources
  • Abstract of the book of Enoch, from Archbishop Rich. Laurence's Translation
West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/65 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Brown hardcover notebook with white ruled pages, handwritten in pencil and ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 67 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: Extracts and notices from readings on Iranian and Indian Subjects

  • Ferguson's Illustrations of Rock-cut temples of India
  • Translations by Captain Fell of Sanskrit I
  • Dr. Haug's Zand, Pahlavi and Pazand MSS
  • Anquetil-Duperron's account of his MSS
  • MSS in East India Library, London = L
  • MSS in British Museum Library, London = L. b.
  • MSS in Bibliotheque Imperiale de Paris = P
  • MSS in Bodleaine & Radcliffe libraries at Oxford = O.b. & O.r
  • MSS. of Burnouf, Wilson, Westegaard, Mullah Firur, etc
  • Notes on MSS of Zand texts from Westergaard's preface to Zend-Avesta
  • Summaries of inscriptions and articles from different Asiatic journals and books ("Ker Porters Travels," "Asiatic researcher," "Journal. Asiatique," "Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society," "Histoire genereal des Voyage" Vol 1 & 3. by Prevost)
  • Summary and transcription from some "Zand & Pahlavi MSS. at Kopenhagen University Library
  • E. Thompson's transcript of two Inscription at Persepolis" J.R.A.S 1868 pp.355 - 6
  • Pahlavi Grammar
  • Greek inscriptions
West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 SC3-SC3/2 · Series · 1630 - 1676
Part of Extracts from the Records of Bombay and Surat

Extracts Bombay records (Surat factory). A small lined notebook with missing cover in which has been written: * "Original in Surat Factory Outward Letter Book No.1A of 1630 @1673", p.243, to Mr Thomas Rolt, Gomborne, from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray and Charles James, dated 14 March 1672.

  • Same book, p.244, to Mr John Petit, Callecut, from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray and Charles James, dated 6 April 1672.
  • Same book, p.247, to Mr Cesar Chamberlain, [Carwarr], from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray and Charles James, dated April.
  • Same book, p.250, to Bantam from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray and Charles James, dated 12 April 1672.
  • Same book, p.263, from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray and Charles James, dated 17 May 1672.
  • Original in Surat Factory Outward Letter Book No.2 of 1675 @1676", p.2, to Bombay, from Gerald Hungier and Charles James, dated 6 December 1675.
  • Same book, p.3, to Swally, from Gerald Hungier and Charles James, dated 6 December 1875.
  • Same book, from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray, Charles Lamb and Caesar Chamberlain, dated 6 December 1675. There is a copyist's note to state "This letter is eaten by white ants & I have to guess most of the words". * Same book, p.5, from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray, Charles Lamb and Caesar Chamberlain, dated 6 December 1675. Same book, p.7, to Swally, with copyist note to say much of the letter is unreadable.
  • Same book, p.8, to Bombay, from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray, Charles Lamb and Caesar Chamberlain, dated 9 December 1675.
  • Same book, p.9, from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray and Caesar Chamberlain, dated 11 December 1675. with copyist note to state that the letter is decaying.
  • Same book, p.20, to Mr John Child, Rajapore, from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray, Charles Lamb and Caesar Chamberlain, dated 5 January 1675.
  • Same book, p.21, to Bombay, from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray and Caesar Chamberlain, dated January 1675/76.
  • Same book, p.23. to Bombay from Gerald Hungier, Matthew Gray, Charles Lamb and Caesar Chamberlain, dated 15 January 1675/76.

These letters are primarily concerned with trade and defensive matters. It should be noted that several of the pages have come loose from the notebook.

GB 891 BHH-BHH/7-BHH/7/10 · File · [1872 - 1880]
Part of Papers of Brian Houghton Hodgson

"Extracts from a Sketch of Nepal by the Surgeon of the Residency, Calcutta, AD 1872." Further Hodgson notes from Dr Wright's book. These are regarding Nepal's rules concerning commercial dealings and intercourse with Europeans. Handwritten, 2 pieces, 4 sides, undated (post 1872).

Hodgson Brian Houghton 1800-1894 Orientalist
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/80 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink.
Contents: Extracts from Berosus and other Greek historians and writers with a section towards the end titled Zoroaster and Ormuzd.

West Edward William 1824-1905
Extracts from Bombay Records
GB 891 SC3-SC3/3 · Series · 1675 - 1676
Part of Extracts from the Records of Bombay and Surat

"Extracts from Bombay Records" - a small lined notebook with blue cover, made by "Shamsher Exercise Books, S.P. Press Bombay 3", in which is an incomplete copy of a letter from "Original in Surat Factory Outward Letter Book No.2 of 1675 @1676, p.23". The letter is primarily concerned with trade and defensive matters. The cover is marked with a "I", so presumably it is one of two or several which are now missing.