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Description: Uncovered notebook. Ruled with white pages and handwritten in ink. One set of inserts. Identified as West 37 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Catalogue of an Indian Library; Jamaspik with full Gujarati colophon and table of contents; Videvdat with a Gujarati version.
Inserts: Two folios with "The Nasks" in Dinkard, Dinkard p.273, and those "cited in the Pahlavi Rivayat"

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

Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. identified as West 1 from de Menasche handlist.

Contents:

• "Lord's prayer in Zand"
• London MSS., handwritten copy of L22 and folio level description of most folios ranging from L1 - L26
• Pazand Bundhašin from L22 with other miscellaneous passages from the same and a description of the MSS.
• Pahlavi introduction to Vishtasp Yasht from L5, Pahlabi Stayishwai Sirozah from L26, description of several volumes of MSS. from the East India Library.

Inserts:

• traced characters and sections from MSS.
• travel plans
• scrap of paper containing definitions
• folio titled "Zand translation of the Lord's Prayer by M. Hang, Ph.D"
• other miscellaneous papers containing calculations, notes, etc

Description: Small black leather softcover notebook with ruled white pages. Multiple inserts.
Contents: Excerpts and summaries from various sources relating to Oriental scholars, Persian MSS, astronomy, (e.g. Journal of the Bengal Asiatic Society Col 54 [1885] Part 1, pp. 140-2, Chronology of Ancient Nations by Albiruni, Tarikh-I Tabaristan by Muhammad ibn ul-Hasan", Oriental Memoirs by James Forbes, ; ; "Dr. John Fryer's Travels", Indian Gazetteer)
Inserts:

• Folios with title and citation of articles relating to Zoroastrian Studies
• folio with list of books titled "India. Descriptive Works and Travels (old)
• Reading room request forms
• scraps of paper with "1865 Transit of first point of Aries", directions to some place in Piccadilly, book title "Corpus papyrorum Raineri archiducis Austrioe", containing titles for Ancient British History, transcriptions from fragments of the Persian MSS
• Folios with notes regarding Raja Prithviraj, titled "Early Traces of Pahlavi"

Description: Blue soft cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 43 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "From the latter part of the Khrudesh Avesta MS. F2 (see vol. 18, p.163)" Description and table of contents of "Miscellaneous MSS. from Earl Crawford's library at Haigh House, Nigam" Vol I - IV Description and short note on "Dasama Padsha-ka Granth, one of the sacred books of the Sikhs" "Prithvi-raj-ki katha, vol IV" from p769 - 775 transliterated

The manuscripts compiled by Edward William West. Many of these were listed by de Menasce. West was interested in many topics which are reflected in these manuscripts.

Description: White unruled loose folios, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 40 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A short overview on the sources of Nirangistan "(which begins with a portion of the Aerpatistan, the two being two sections of the first thirty of the Husparam), Nirangistan. Transcribed; Translation takes place on the first two pages, and the remaining pages all have the second half of the page empty, awaiting translation.

Inserts:

• Nirangistan with pencil markings and gap from pp. 2 - 6
• scraps of paper with "Passages in Niragistan, mentioning the Kadokha", "Indication of my Nir. MS. being independent. . .", "Nirangistan MS. p. 1" with short notes on collation and origins, Table of contents of Aerpatistan and Niranngistan, comparison of Westergaard's Nirangistan with Bombay MS., Beginning of "the Iranian text of the Nirangistan"
• folio from "the Rivayat of Hemid-i Asavahisthan (?) Pahl. Lit. 50 (Tehmuras's Letter of 1/12/94)", "copied from K41 by D. Anderson".

Description: Black hardbound leather notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.

Contents:
Copy of Anquetil-du Perron's Zend-Avesta Vol 2., section "Bound-dehesch"

• Mordtmann's Chronology of the Sasanian dynasty" which was later corrected when an updated article came in ZDMG in 1881
• "[F.] Justi's translation of the Bundehesh" copy of a small part of Der Bundehesh

Inserts:

• folio titled "Wanted two small books" with detailed descriptions of the two books
• newspaper clipping from "The Academy" from 10 August 1878

The Papers of Edward William West reflect his interest in Pahlavi language and Zoroastrianism. The majority are handwritten notebooks and other manuscripts in which he did his work. These often have many inserts. There are also loose handwritten notes, some correspondence and some printed material.

Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, hand written in ink, inserts held in place with string and brass paperclips, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 2 in de Menasche handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi & Pazand Shikhand-gumani (first part), from L15,23
• End of Pahlavi Rivayat, from L15
• Pahlavi Patet-I Khud, from the same
• Pahlavi duties of ameshaspends, from the same
• Pahalvi Gosht-I Fryano, from the same
• Pazand Patet-I Adarbad Mardspend, from the same
• Pazand-Sankstrit Minokhand, from L19 with commentary on the condition of the original text, its discrepancies and its mixture of lanuages
• Copy of the Buwahirin Fragment
• "Collation of the OW portion of the 2 & PW"
• Zand-Pahlavi prayers & miyayish, from L12 Inserts: Pahlavi version of the Yatha Ahi Vairyo rayer from the London E.I. Library
• Indexical information
• Transcript of Pazand Menok-i-Xrat from London
• MSS Shayast-ne-Sayast from London MSS

Inserts:

• Pahlavi version of the Yatha Ahi Vairyo rayer from the London E.I. Library,
• plastic indexical information newspaper clipping on "The Lost Canon of Berosus"
• miscellaneous numerical calculations