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Texts: Yasna 11, 26 & 57. Loose folios entitled "Texts" and stamped with "W. Kohlhammer Buchdruckerei Correctur Stuttgart".

Description: Brown softcover notebook ruled with white pages handwritten in ink. Detailed table of contents.With insets. Identified as West 18 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Xortak Apastak transcribed from J.9
• "Contents of the M.S. J9 herein before copied"
• Notes on Sanjana's MS. Of Yasna
• Notes on Pt.4 and other Avestic MSS
• Notes on a MS. Belonging to F. F. Madun

Inserts:

• "Contents of Modern folios prefixed to supply deficiency in old MS."
• tracing paper with cursive Avestan
• "Introductory to Yasna Introduction in Pt. 4"
• Pahlavi statement copied in Pt. 4 (Pahl. Yasna)
• short notes on differences between original and copies
• scrap paper serving indexical purpose
• blotting paper
• folio with "Extract from the Pahlavi Introduction" and "A Colophon of Hoshan Sivyavakhah is preserved in Pers. Rivayah B29 dated A.Y. 847 (A.D. 1478) see vol 14. pp. 170, 171"
• folio with extract from "Pahlavi Afrinagam Gahantrai"

Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 20 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• "Vishtasp Yasht, with Pahlavi; copied from a MS in Dastun Jamaspji Minocheherji's library, presented by him, and collated with the original. January 1876.- EWW"

Description: Brown hardcover notebook unruled with white pages handwritten in ink. Detailed table of contents. With inserts. Identified as West 19 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Variants used for Vistasp Yast Sadah
• The Oersuab Zartust Namah (transliterated)
• Denik Vicirkart (continued from vol. 3 p 272) from JE
• Description of other texts contained in JE
• "From Dr. Wilson's Rivayat in the Earl of Crawford's library"
• Fragment of Patet i Aturpat and other short Pahlavi texts from MSS. in the same Library
• Colophons of various MSS (Sadat)

Inserts:

• folio titled "Contents of Dini-Vajarka"
• scrap paper with line count of different folios
• short notes on the fragments
• one-liner descriptions/translations of parts of Fragment III
• scrap paper with description of Dinkard Book III from Copenhagen, fragment of a translation (author, translator and source unknown), short factoid about Dastur Kaus Fredun Munajami, and other information serving indexical purpose
• scrap paper with translation (source and translator unknown) with corrections in red

"Uebersetungen aus dem Pehlevi-Vendidad" by Paul Horn. Unbound copy of the article published in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft : ZDMG / Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (1847) , pp.30-48. Has handwritten annotations.

Description: Dark green hardcover unruled notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 25 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Shkand gumānīk vicār, translated

Description: Dark green hard cover, unruled white and blue pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts. The contents start in the book and continue on to ordered inserts. Other inserts also included. Identified as West 30 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: The "Selections of Zat Sparam." Transliteration and translation.

Inserts:

• Continuation of the text
• folio with different Pahlavi letters related to red markings of Ch 1, 12, and 13 of Kn MS
• folio with words in Dk. and Persian
• folios serving indexical purpose
• folio with syllable count calculation
• folio with translation of "Dk. V.i, 9"
• folio with translation of "332 - 339 fol 357 - 356"
• folio with summary of Vol. 10
• scrap papers with fragments of translation and possibly word meanings
• an academic to-do list
• "Explanation of missing folios"

Description: Green and blue patterned hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 9 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi Nirangistan copied from Haug's MS. H8 ("now H.53 of the Zend bodices in the State Library at Munchen")
• A short note by West written on Feb. 6. 1893 on the relationship between his copy and the MS. he copied from
• alphabets of Devanagari script
• short note on "TD3, a modern copy of a MS. of the Nirangistan bought from Persia a few years ago" and a comparison of it to the Bombay MSS.

Inserts:

• "Alphabet of the Shekwati inscription, dated A.D. 973 (Samvat 1030)"
• folio with calculations, descriptions of folios, and some index information
• folio with "Observations" on the Devanagari script
• scrap of paper with transliteration of words and corresponding index information
• folio titled "Further references from Nirangistan, after vol. 9. p. 144. . . "
• small piece of paper that seems to note differences between some manuscripts West was consulting
• scrap paper with calculations
• scrap paper with note regarding errors in TD, guide to symbols in "collations"
• folio titled "End of Nirangistan" two folios serving an index purpose

Description: Black hard cover, unruled notebook, with white pages handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 34 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Pp. 1 - 135: "The 'Iranian Bundahish' from Darmester's copy of the MS. TD. belonging to Tehmuras Dinshawji Anklesaria in Bombay, collated in red (above) with his collation of his second MS. DS. as far as p27, l. 20 of this book, and there forward from his collation in his own copy TD. Also collated with TD, Tehmuras' [sic.] own copy of (red pages) whose variants in text are noted in pencil above, and those in collation in footnotes when they are additional alterations" It should be noted that de Menasace gives a detailed description of this manuscript in his list.

Inserts:

• folios with "Contents of Tehmuras's DS MS. (letter of 27 Oct. 82)" stuck to the cover page
• folios serving indexical purpose
• folio with abstract for "Iranian Bundahish XXXIX"
• several scraps of paper serving as markers
• scrap of paper from "asst. lib" suggesting "pp. 137 - 202 [of] MS. 34. [is] exerographed" dated: Nov. 10. 1969
• correspondence between Miss Fell of the Royal Asiatic Society and Kej Barr: postcard from Barr to Fell thanking her for her services with apologies for his tardy response dated: 7.7. 50: letter remarking that "The sample pages of West's Book no. 34 has [been] dispatched 12. 5. '50", Short letter on the Photostat Service and payment from Fell to Barr dated: 12. 5. '50", note card that might have served as a reminder, note card with address of Prof. Barr, receipt from Photostat service. All of these items are from the year 1950 between the Assistant Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Professor Kaj Barr of Denmark.
• folio with "Persons whose opinions are quoted"
• a calendar card from December 1896 with calculations corresponding to the Jewish Adar and the Persian Atur

Description: Dark green hardcover unruled notebook handwritten in ink. Identified as West 23 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: The Indian Bundhišn, transliterated and translated.