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Description: Red and blue patterned hardcover notebook with blue-tinted pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts, detailed table of contents and page numbers. Identified as West 11 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Kitab-i-Dron Yastan (from London 14)
• Kitab-i-Vazargird (from L. 24)
• Fragments of Sanskrit and Gujarati Yasna I. (from a MS. belonging to Max Muller)
• Introduction from Max Muller MS.
• "Flower of the Gulmor Tree" pressed in

Inserts:

• Paper that serves an index
• Some flowers and some leaves

Description: Blue and yellow patterned soft cover notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 50 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi Glossary. On the inside cover there is a list of all the sources used and their respective abbreviations. West also notes the words that don't appear in any glossary.

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: Large white unruled notebook, no cover, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 46 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi-English glossary. References are given in numbers referring, most likely, to volumes and pages of West's own copies (according to de Menasce's list).

Description: Unbound notebook with loose folios from the same, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 51 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• A Pahlavi-English Glossary of V (Vendidad, Spiegel)
• W (Visparad Sp. as given in H. 6, see MS., vols. 3, p. 207)
• C = MS. vol. 3 (page and line ref. all words glossarized except those in list), from pp. 33 - 109, but afterwords only rare words
• M = MS. vol. 13, only rare words glossarized .

Inserts:

• Words to be omitted in Glossary
• Reference to Zend sentences
• Inscriptions of Cyrus
• list of Latin abbreviations commonly found in dictionaries

Description: Brown hardcover notebook, unruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 52 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• "Most valuable notes as regards to 'Dinkard,' etc
  *." A Pahlavi-English Glossary with full references to Denkart Bks. VII - IX
• "Pazand Texts prepared by Dastur Hoshangji"

Inserts:

• several folios and scraps of paper containing calculations on lines and number of words, rough drafts of paragraphs of future essays, fragments of translation, word meanings, "additional Huzvarish words"
• additional Hebrew-Huzvarish words;
• "notes from Prof. M. J. Muller's 'Essai en la Langue Pehlive,' Paris 1839"
• omission of words from glossary, diagram that seems like a map to a library or a possible ordering of books or a potential reading method; Some of the inserts in the latter part of the book are loose pages.

Description: Tracing paper held with string with several loose folios, handwritten in ink and pencil. Fragile. Identified as West 49 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Alphabetical Index of Westergaard's edition of the Bundehesh to which are added all the Pahlavi words occurring in the Old Pahlavi-Pazand and Zand-Pahlavi Glossaries".

Description: Loose sheets, handwritten in ink and pencil, plus two article proofs with handwritten annotations.
Contents:

• Title page "Articles regarding Avesta & Pahlavi Texts by E.W.W. 1869-1896 with Index"
• Pahlavi letters and compounds occurring in the Pahlavi glossary
• "Alphabet from Inscriptions on Delhi Column"
• Inscription from a stone found near Devikapara
• "A short summary of the texts contained in the old Pahlavi Codex MK"
• "On the transliteration of Pahlavi" - 2 versions
• Notes on Zarathustra's doctrine regarding the Soul"
• "Parsee Prakāsh", handwritten and offprint
• "Merits of ceremonies, p.212-213"
• Proof copy for a text concerning the Pahlavi text of the Gāthas with handwritten annotations

Description: Loose white and blue folios handwritten in ink kept inside a paper folder. Identified as West 47 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Some of the commoner Huzvarish words with their etymology [in Hebrew], arranged alphabetically" "Eramji Dastur Sohrabji Meharji Rana's Huz. & Pahl. Farjang Bombay A.Y. 1238." "Alphabetical list of Huzvarish verbs"

Menasce suggest these are mostly copies of earlier works.

Description: Black softcover notebook with unruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 54 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Sparse initial […] to a glossary." Initial steps taken to make the glossary. Pahlavi-English glossary with references to Dẽnkart.