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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/8 · 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 8 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

  • Denkart Bk III continued to Chapter 372 (Sanjana = Madan p.354)
  • Babylonian Chronology from George Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol. 3
  • Kings of Assyria from Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol 2.
  • Mythology of the Chaldeans from Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol 1.

Inserts:

  • Explanation of the word "homast"
  • folios with Pahlavi transliteration and its English translation, the passage identifying marks are written in the corner of each: pp.181-183 and pp. 238 & 56
  • A blue folio with words meanings in Pahlavi and English, some of which have question marks next to them
  • folio with list of words and page numbers they can be found on
  • folio with passage DKa 313, 3
  • folio with "Zand words in Din-Kard"
  • folio with a few more words, mostly blank
  • Gujarati newspaper article with the articles: "Pehlvi Inscriptions in South India," "Important Speech by Lord North Brook in the Delhi Durbar" from the newspaper "Rast Gopukar Tatha Satya Prakash"
  • [unmailed/draft of a] letter to the editor of "The Academy" regarding the inclusion of Pahlavi texts
  • Four Folios of description, praise, and introductions for "The Dinkard"
  • loose folios that serve an index
  • On the back of a Times of India "Saturday Afternoon Edition" announcement leaflet "Sections of Book III not quoted from Nike-i-Vehedas"
West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/32 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, with multiple inserts. Identified as West 32 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: Denkart Bk. III continued from vol. 8 and completed to the end of Bk. III.

Inserts:

  • Book Review of "The Dinkard, Vol VI." by Peshotan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana, Print from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Jan 1882 pp. 170-2
  • Translation of "Denkard (Acts of Religion), Book 3" by Peshotan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana pp. 555 - 78
  • Folios of transliteration and translation of "Dinkard Book III, last but one chapter - Pahlavi Text from the MS. B, written in 1659, and brought from Iran to Surat in 1783" note from EWW: "But from a copy supplied by Dastur D. Jamaspji , which I have been unable to collate with the original MS."
  • Folio with translation of "Dk III, chap. 261 (Peshotan, ed. trans. vol vi. p.405) and "The three Lunar Periods in Avesta, OC"
  • Folio with "Beginnings of Folios"
  • "Great Western Railway Suburban Timeline" of December 1882
  • scraps of paper with different translations and transliterations
West Edward William 1824-1905
Defy Old Age
GB 891 ACG-ACG/15-ACG/15/1-ACG/15/1/4 · File
Part of Papers of Angus C. Graham

Defy Old Age from the Chinese of Kuan Han-ch'ing, draft translation.

Graham Angus Charles 1919-1991