Description: Red-brown soft cover notebook, ruled pages, and handwritten in ink. Cover and several pages are loose. Multiple inserts. First page is stamped with a Bombay Education Society's Press mark, dated 6 August 1900. Identified as West 36 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "First Series of the Selections of Zad-Sparam" To C: Loose folios originating from book from pp. 1 - 20 contain Ch. I to IV, pp. 48 - 73 contain Ch. X - XVIII in the original Pahlavi and Transliterated. Loose folios with papers originating from different sources with the same text translated - pp. 29 - 47 [fol. no. 1 - 11] contain Ch. XII - XIX, fol. no. 11 -20 contain Ch. XX - XXIV.
Inserts: Scrap of paper with comparison of different Pahlavi scripts and scraps of paper serving an indexical purpose.
Note de Menasce description of this item appears to be inaccurate.
Official Documentation, correspondence and a newspaper cutting concerning the first session of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences held in London from 30 July to 4 August 1934.
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological SciencesFirst Volume - Java Antiquities
- First section - Lists and corrrespondence regarding the possible second publication of Sir T. S. Raffles' book, History of Java, with notes by Mr Hammond, Sir T. S. Raffles and the Duke of Somerset.
- Second section - Handwritten descriptions of four Javanese temples; Cobon Dalum, Sewu, Jonggrangan and Loro Jongran, likely written by T. S. Raffles.
- Third section - 'Memorandum made on a visit to the ancient Hindu Remains on Gunung Prau in the Island of Java, during the month of September 1815, illustrated with Plans & sketches taken on the spot', likely written by T. S. Raffles.
- Fourth section - 'Extracts from the private Journals of Captain G. P. Baker, 19th Regt Bengal Infantry, of all memories made on the spot relative to the Collection of antiquarians Drawing [etc] made by him in a tour thro' the interior of Java in the years 1815/16'. Handwritten with accompanying drawings.
Fitzroy Maclean's "In the land of Ghenghis Khan". A column about modern Mongolia from The Sunday Times, 18 August 1963.
Five sheets of typed manuscript in French, labelled paragraphs 15, 22, 31, 32, 33, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46.They concern Phaulkon and Cochinchina.
Flier from the Anglo-Mongolian Society about the benefits of membership, the current officers, and subscription rates.
Anglo-Mongolian SocietyCopies of plans for ground, first, second and third floors of 14 Grafton Street with two further sheets labelled as "proposed alterations" to first, second and third floors.
"Florence, Sept. 23rd to Oct. 7th, 1974" - typed itinerary of their tour, 1 side.
Correspondence regarding the Princes of Wales' interest in a school teaching Hindi. Two emails to find out the information and a copy of a letter from Adrian Thomas, Royal Asiatic Society, to Nigel Baker, St. James's Palace, to give the information regarding the school, dated 4 December 2002.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1823- London, EnglandNotes from the manuscript include: