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Description Green and blue patterned hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 10 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi fragments: Atashi-I Bhiram from Dastun H's MS.
• Dadistani-i-Dini Part II & III from H14, J127, and Kr.

Inserts:

• 2 folios containing the proof copy of West's Book Review of Des Origines du Zoroastrianisme by M. C. de Harlez extracted from Journal Asiatique
• Paper with calculations equating/comparing number of lines of different texts
• two folios with writing in Avestan papers serving as index
• description of contents of Vol 10 & 13 (sent to Dr. Williams Jackson, 11/7/95)

Description: Black and brown hardcover bound notebook with white pages. Handwritten in ink with detailed table of contents and page numbers. Inserts held in place with string. Identified as West 14 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Z.-Pahlavi. Citak i Avistak i Gasan from the old MS, H6
• Z.-Pahl. Khurshed Nyayish from the same
• Pazand Ashervad from H. fragments
• Pazand Ashirvada Irani from H21
• Gujarati in Devanagari, Names of planets and Zodiac signs, from H21
• Contents of Persia Rivayat H10 & in Bombay University Lib.

Inserts:

• "Hekatompylos" by A.D. Mordtmann
• Kitabi Wama'i Islam
• Colloquy between Zaratusht & Auharwazd regarding religion

"Copied from Various Books and Papers by Annie Hodgson, Brianstone, 1854-1855." A selection of testimonials from Publications "Collected for Harry Hodgson by his affectionate mother A.H. and given on his Birthday 18th Oct". Notebook with marbled cover in which Annie Hodgson has written extracts from articles praising Brian Houghton Hodgson. Also inserted is a comment signed B.H.Hodgson to a footnote from an article by Col. Phayre ("On the History of the Burmah Race", JASB vol. XXXIII, pp. 1-31, 1864). Handwritten, 2 pieces, 1854-1864.

"Conventions for describing types of phrase", and a further single page of "The reconstitution of a mutilated document of the Mohist logicans: the Ta ch'u".

Three copies of Conze's publication: "contradiction and reality", published by Wightman & Co. Ltd., London (1939). Plus a typed partial draft with handwritten note "Vera's Sutra from Teddy" on title page.

After Charles became King, all his patronages were considered. This material concerns his decision to continue his patronage of the Royal Asiatic Society. There are two letters:

• Letter from Sir Clive Alderton, Principal Private Secretary to the King and Queen, Buckingham Palace, to Dr Alison Ohta, Director, Royal Asiatic Society to inform that in the review of the patronages of the late Queen and the former Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, it was decided that the King would be delighted to retain his patronage of the Society. Typed letter with printed letterhead, 1 piece, dated 3 May 2024. With the letter is the accompanying envelope.
• Copy of a letter from Dr Alison Ohta to Sir Clive Alderton to express on behalf of the Society, their delight in hearing that the King will retain the patronage and the wish of the Society to present His Majesty with a copy of the new limited edition of James Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. Typed, 2 pieces, dated 8 May 2024.

Description: Blue-green patterned hard cover note book with blue ruled pages, handwritten in ink and pencil. Several inserts. Identified as West 66 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: Continuation of West 66; Extracts with translation of Framji's appendix.

Inserts:

• folio with folio numbers of the Yasna with possibly sentence long summaries of sets of folios
• folio with "Yasna XXVII" with word and idiom meanings
• scrap of paper with "ta," "da," etc.
• scrap of paper with possibly folio numbers

Field Survey Book: black, hardback, one page of field notes containing latitude and longitude of the architecture - a continuation of the Compass Survey of Sri Dheb in Siam (Amphur Vijiem, Changvad Pejabun, Siam).

Continuation of the Comparative Vocabulary of the Kirântis. "Continuation of the comparative vocabulary of the several dialects of the Kirânti language B.H. Hodgson R.C.S." Vocabulary sheets comparing English, Báhinggyá, Lόhόrόng, Lámbichhang, Báláli, Sángpáng, Dúmi, Kháling and Dúngmáli. With extra annotations. Handwritten, 6 large sheets, 12 sides, undated.

Continuation of the Comparative Vocabulary of the broken tribes of Nepal. "Continuation of the Comparative vocabulary of the languages of the broken tribes of Nepal by B H Hodgson". Vocabulary sheets comparing English, Kusuńda, Pakhýa, Thakśya and Tháru. Handwritten, 5 large sheets, 9 sides, undated.