Description: Black hard cover notebook with unruled pages, written in ink. Some inserts. Identified as West 58 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Observations of Germany Drawings of two buildings in Germany with structural descriptors (i.e. size, width, height) "Atlantic cable of 1866" progress table with distance and percentage covered "Guesses at the meaning of 666, quoted by Professor DeMorgan from Mr. David Thom's 'The number and names of Apocalyptic Beasts' Part I, 1848, 8vo A Pahlavi Glossary in transcription with some translation and sparse references
Description: Green hard cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 63 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Continuation of West 62 (EWW/1/60). "The following transcript contains the text of the Yasna, Visparad & Vendidad mingled together in the usual order. The text of the Yasna has been compared throughout with the text in Gujarati characters of Aspandiji Framji . . ."
Description: Purple blue and grey patterned hard cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with string. Identified as West 64 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Continuation of West 62 and 63 (EWW/1/60 and EWW/1/61).
Inserts: scraps of paper with "copy of Zend from words Journal As. Soc. Vol. 4".
Description: Blue-green patterned hard cover note book with blue ruled pages handwritten in ink and pencil. Several inserts. Identified as West 65 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "The 'Yasna' from the Gujarati transcript of Aspandiarji Framji . . . Printed in Bombay in 1218 of Yazdagard" This translation from Pahlavi to Gujurati was certified by "Dozabhai Jamshedji under the date 5 July 1849 A.D.) (A.D. 1850): English translation, including the rubrics, with notes on the textual variants.
Inserts: Note and an excerpt "[f]rom Dr. J. Burgess's letter Oct. 17th. 1898"
Sin títuloDescription: Thin black hardbound notebook with ruled white pages handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with brass paper clips.
Contents:
- Continuation of "Habits des Parsis"
- "List of the Parsi Ceremonial apparatus collected by Professor Haug in India"
- Summary of a section of "The Chronology of Nations"
Description: Six notebooks without covers, unruled, handwritten in ink. Some have inserts.
Contents:
- Detailed copies of Greek coins front and back. Insert entitled "Inscriptions on Bactrian coins"
- Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Asiatic Researcher Vol. 7", James Prinsep's work, "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal" esp. 1835.
- Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Asiatic Researcher" Vol. 9 and 1
- Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Asiatic Researcher" Vol. 1, 3
- Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal" 1836, 1837
- Copy of a transcription of a copper plate "dug up in the Manamati hills, in the district of Trupura" from "Asiatic Researcher" Vol. 9
Description: Red-white-blue patterned hardcover notebook with unruled pages, handwritten in ink.
Contents: Herodotus Book 1. l. 71 - 137; An account about the Persians by Pliny, also copied "Pliny Nat. Hist. b. 30. ch. 2."
Description: Loose folios. Handwritten in ink, with original envelope. Identified as part of West 56 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- "Transcriptions of Inscriptions. . ., from Ouseley's Travels in the East Vol. 2 p. 42"
- several folios with presumably transliterated Pahlavi inscriptions
- "Naksh-i-Rustam Sasanian Inscription"
- short note on the Sasanian inscriptions
- "Transcript of the Inscription behind horse at Naksh-i Rustom"
- "Transcript of Hajibad Inscription"
- multiple folios of tracing paper with inscriptions
- word meanings from Persian, Hebrew, and possibly Pahlavi written on the back of a poster of "Carlyle's Manifold Writer"
- hand drawn copy of "Conclusion of the imperfect Pahlavi inscription of 70 lines from Naksh-i Rustam"
- "Trilingual Inscriptions on chests of horses in bas-relief at end of hill . . ."
- "On northern bas-relief" at Naqsh-i-Rustom; "Pahlavi Inscriptions"
Description: Loose folios handwritten in ink including a newspaper cutting with inscription written on it. Identified as part of West 56 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- 1 folio titled "Kanheri Pahlavi Inscriptions, dates & names"
- 4 folios beginning with the title "Pahlavi inscriptions from Kanheri"
- Some inscriptions drawn on a Times of India article
- folio with trace of "Pahlavi inscription on flat space between 2 groups of sculptures on stone from sculptured [dayob] at Kanheri"
- 2 folios with copies of different inscriptions
- 2 folios with "Inscriptions mentioned by Auquetil"
Handwritten copy of a rough list of the Manuscripts of the late Dr E.W. West, now in the R.A.S. Library compiled by Professor L.H. Mills. Please note that this date was estimated upon cataloguing.