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              GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/74 · File · [1844 - 1905]
              Part of Papers of Edward William West

              Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with ruled white pages handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with brass paper clips.

              Contents:

              • Continuation of "Habits des Parsis"
              • "List of the Parsi Ceremonial apparatus collected by Professor Haug in India"
              • Summary of a section of "The Chronology of Nations"
              West Edward William 1824-1905
              GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/77 · File · [1844 - 1905]
              Part of Papers of Edward William West

              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"
              West Edward William 1824-1905
              GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/67 · File · 1867
              Part of Papers of Edward William West

              Description: Green brown patterned hardbound notebook with white pages, unruled, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 69 in de Menasce handlist.

              Contents:

              • p.3 - 9" Ancient Persian, or Pahlavi words occurring in Richardson's Persian Dictionary"
              • pp.11 - 17: notes on the Chaldean language, Assyrian language, from Rawlinson's "Ancient Monarchies"
              • p19. "Type used in an Italian book, printed at Venice in March 1531."
              • pp. 21 - 22: "List of Hindi plays, given by Prof. H. H. Wilson"
              • pp. 23 - 47: "Pahlavi Vocabulary from Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta"
              • pp. 49 - 51: "List of Zend & Pahlavi MSS. in E. I. Library, Westminster"
              • pp. 51 - 68: Zend and Pahlavi alphabetic typefaces and style copied from different MSS from different libraries and people (i.e Dr. Haug, Rivayat 29a belonging to Bombay University)
              • pp. 70 - 82: Phoenician script and its translations (copy of other works)
              • pp. 82 - 88: Zand, Pahlavi, and Persian colophons "Colophon at end of Z. - Pahl. Glos. in N. (2) as given by Destur Hozhangji," "Extract from Dr. Haug's old MS.," "Extract from Fol. 114 or 130a, next following the end of the Zand glossary," several short extracts from K20
              • pp. 90 - 2: Syriac and Mendaean alphabet from "Hoffman's Gramatica Syrica"
              • Himyaritic alphabets
              • "Irish alphabets from Higgin's Celtic Druids"
              • "Electric Telegraph Alphabet"
              • "List of Persian Verbs, from Mirza Muhammmed Ibrahim's Persian Grammar"
              • Measures of the ancients, from Bunsen's
              • 'Egypt's place in universal history'
              • copy of different alphabets from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of France Vol. 1
              • Parsi men's names from Bombay calendar
              • Persian Cuneiform alphabet and other alphabets copied from various sources
              • Abstract of the book of Enoch, from Archbishop Rich. Laurence's Translation
              West Edward William 1824-1905
              Habits des Parsis
              GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/73 · File · [1844 - 1905]
              Part of Papers of Edward William West

              Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with ruled white pages, handwritten in ink.
              Contents: "Habits des Parsis", chapters I-X (X incomplete, continued in EWW/1/74).

              West Edward William 1824-1905