Bestanddeel EWW/1/88 - "Notes from H. Speight's 'Niddendale and Garden of the Nidd'" and other loose sheets

1 folder

Description: Loose sheets, mainly handwritten in ink, identified as West 57B in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• "Notes from H. Speight's 'Niddendale and Garden of the Nidd'" (8/3/1899)
• Excerpts and summaries from Rawlinson
• A draft of Persian history with reference to History of Persian (London 1815)
• "Notes on some minor Pahlavi texts"
• "Conclusion of Ganj-i Shaigan, from the Tehran MS. (continued from p.11, l.11 ed. Peshton)"
• Excerpts with translations fol. 47a and 74b
• Excerpts from Denkart
• "Notes on First Series of the Selections of Zad-sparam" and serves an indexical purpose to West 10 (Vol. 10)
• "From App. To Dr.. Wm. Rovertson's Disquistion. . . " concerning a 1791 book on India
• Map of 16 Gunterstone Road
• blue folio with Pahlavi and Pazand sentence fragments
• "Pahlavi Alphabets"
• calculation of day
• Books noticed and reviewed in the "Academy" from 1874 - 88
• List of books and MSS "Pahlavi Literature" - a list with word count of each text
• An academic to-do list relating to Dk.
• A glossary
• List of Shahnamah names
• A short newspaper review on "The book of Sage Jamasp"
• Letter and Library Card for E.W. West for the British Museum with envelope
• "Defective lines at the foot of folios" fol.232a (p.286,2) - fol237b (p.300,1)
• "The remaining texts a/// [are] contained in the second MS. of 42 additional folios and are as follows"
• "Bund. Queries"; references to West 13 (Vol. 13) serving an indexical purpose, missing folios noted in red
• copying history of the "Yas" MSS
• Selections of Zad-Sparam
• blue and red page numbers with line numbers
• "Dk. III"
• Eight Reading room request forms
• A copy of a snakes and ladders game with translations. Source of game unidentified

• Engels
• Pahlavi