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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'.
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.

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
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/13 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Black hardcover notebook with cover missing and pages falling apart from the binding. Handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with strings. Identified as West 13 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents [all from De Menasce's handlist]:

  • Pp. 1-100: " Pahlavi Shahnamah MS. DJ. in the Library of D. Jamaspji Minochiharji Jamaspasa
  • Pp. 101: Jamasp Namak ; Mali Fravartln Roc Xurdat; Afrins and Matigan i Si Roc from Sanjana's MS. called Pt in the Grundriss 66 sq.
  • P. 122: Notes on MSS. of Nirangistan and on some other MSS in Indian Libraries
  • P. 123: Incipit and Colophon of a MS. of Videvdat with Pahlavi translation (T. 12 " from the library of Shet Maneckji Limji Hatarya at Teheran . . . lent to Dr. Jamaspji Minochaharji").
  • P. 128: Description of a MS. of Vishtap Yast Sadah belonging to Jamaspji. Description of other MSS. from the same library
  • Pp. 200-301: Dadistan-i-Denik, from D. Jamaspji's MS. DJ. collated with K.
  • Pp. 306-340: Dadistan-i-Denik (continued from vol 10, p. 246) from K.
  • P. 341: Visprat with Pahlavi translation " from Dr. Haug's old MS. H. 6 ".

Inserts:

  • pp 1 - 10 are inserts
  • notes made on torn envelope
    *folios with "Note on Catrang-namak"
  • "Vajorg-Mitr's explanation of Chess , addressed to Takht-retus, the envoy of the Indian King Devasarm to Khusro-I Anoshak-ruban"
  • "Note on the Catrang-namak" A correspondence on March 17th (no year)
  • folio with "vol 13 pg. 60, pg 61" written in the margin multiple
  • scraps of paper: some are indexical, others contain alternate/possible translations
  • Proof copy with corrections of "The Pahlavi Jamasp-Namak", contains notes and a short introduction by West
  • "15. Note on the Catran-Namak" Proof copy with corrections
  • "Dastun Darab's Pahlavi transcript of the Jamaspnamak, from his old Pahlavi Manuscript" Copied 8+9/2/1901 and "transcript of the beginning of the MS. H.7 in Pahlavi"
  • "Colophon of J2 (Yasna with Pahlavi) fol 385b."
  • Loose folio
  • scrap of paper with calculations
  • Print of "The Pand-Namah OR, Book of Counsels" by Abarbad Maraspand.
  • "From Codex J. (described in Gundrias der Iran, Phil ii, iii"
  • "Codex J. final Colophon by Mitroapan Kai-Khusro, 1322"
  • "Sagastan"
West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/29 · File · [1844 - 1905]
Part of Papers of Edward William West

Description: Black soft cover notebook, ruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 29 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Transliteration and Translation of the Pahlavi version of Yasna XXXII, the fifth Chapter of the first Gatha" with an "Introduction" and "Concluding Remarks".

West Edward William 1824-1905
GB 891 WST-WST/1-WST/1/3-WST/1/3/41 · Item · (1859)
Part of Papers of Arthur Anderson, Clement, Edward William, Henry, and Walter West

Four pencil, ink and ink wash scaled drawings of painted figures from Cave No. 3. Included partial figures which decorate three columns, alongside some annotations and notes pertaining to the remaining columns, as well as a partial female figure who flanks the colossal Buddha on the right side of the verandah. Scale is one inch to a foot.

West Arthur Anderson Engineer
GB 891 WST-WST/1-WST/1/3-WST/1/3/45 · Item · (1859)
Part of Papers of Arthur Anderson, Clement, Edward William, Henry, and Walter West

The beginning of a scaled drawing of a doorkeeper from the right of the entrance to Cave No. 72. Depicted is only the headdress, outline of the shoulders, and the end of what is likely a weapon. Included are some notes of the colours of the painting. Scale in one inch to a foot.

West Arthur Anderson Engineer