Pencil rubbing of an Inscription, no identifiers.

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: Six notebooks without covers, unruled, handwritten in ink. Some have inserts.
Contents:

• Detailed copies of Greek coins front and back. Insert entitled "Inscriptions on Bactrian coins"
• Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Asiatic Researcher Vol. 7", James Prinsep's work, "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal" esp. 1835.
• Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Asiatic Researcher" Vol. 9 and 1
• Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Asiatic Researcher" Vol. 1, 3
• Copies of inscriptions, translations, and transliterations of writing on different monuments and archaeological excavations as published in "Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal" 1836, 1837
• Copy of a transcription of a copper plate "dug up in the Manamati hills, in the district of Trupura" from "Asiatic Researcher" Vol. 9

Description: Loose folios. Handwritten in ink, with original envelope. Identified as part of West 56 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• "Transcriptions of Inscriptions. . ., from Ouseley's Travels in the East Vol. 2 p. 42"
• several folios with presumably transliterated Pahlavi inscriptions
• "Naksh-i-Rustam Sasanian Inscription"
• short note on the Sasanian inscriptions
• "Transcript of the Inscription behind horse at Naksh-i Rustom"
• "Transcript of Hajibad Inscription"
• multiple folios of tracing paper with inscriptions
• word meanings from Persian, Hebrew, and possibly Pahlavi written on the back of a poster of "Carlyle's Manifold Writer"
• hand drawn copy of "Conclusion of the imperfect Pahlavi inscription of 70 lines from Naksh-i Rustam"
• "Trilingual Inscriptions on chests of horses in bas-relief at end of hill . . ."
• "On northern bas-relief" at Naqsh-i-Rustom; "Pahlavi Inscriptions"

Description: Loose folios handwritten in ink including a newspaper cutting with inscription written on it. Identified as part of West 56 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• 1 folio titled "Kanheri Pahlavi Inscriptions, dates & names"
• 4 folios beginning with the title "Pahlavi inscriptions from Kanheri"
• Some inscriptions drawn on a Times of India article
• folio with trace of "Pahlavi inscription on flat space between 2 groups of sculptures on stone from sculptured [dayob] at Kanheri"
• 2 folios with copies of different inscriptions
• 2 folios with "Inscriptions mentioned by Auquetil"

Proof copy of "Inscriptions around Crosses in South India" by E.W. West written for EPIGRAPHIA INDICA. No. 21. Printed material with handwritten annotations.

The broken cast of an inscribed seal-stone sent to West by E. Drouin in June 1896. Please note that this cast is in fragments. With the seal-stone are tracings and rubbings of it with tentative transcriptions, and an alphabet. Also a photograph and a rubbing of an eighteen-line Pahlavi inscription. Also the original cardboard package in which the cast was sent. Identified as West 57F in de Menasce handlist.

A set of handwritten notes concerning inscriptions. They are titled:

• The Naqbu-i-Hajar Inscription with commentary
• The Hisn Ghurāb Inscription
• Nouvelles Études sur L'Epigraphie du Yemen par MM Joseph et Hartwig Derenbourg
• Minoean B.M. 92 Glaser 284
• Comparative Alphabet

"Minoean, B.M. 92, Glaser 284". Notes on the stones from As-Sauda classified as B.M. 92 (British Museum) and Glaser 284 (Eduard Glaser).

Twelve notebooks containing the author's notes on India, its religions and inscriptions, mainly extracts from, and comments upon, published authors' works.