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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/70
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Notes on Philology and Science
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- [1844 - 1905] (Creation)
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1 notebook
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Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.
Contents:
- "Headings of Sections of Shanamah from Macan's edition, Calcutta 1829"
- Pahlavi-transliterated-Persian words where some have folio and MS. numbers; short unorganized notes on Pahlavi and Persian grammar
- summary of article by Professor Terrein de Lacouperie in the "Academy" from 10 Oct. 1885, p.243-4 #
- notes on inscriptions and their locations in libraries
- notes on printing and correcting proofs calculations relating to the sun, moon, and the earth
- notes on different coins
- "Period of Gestation in Various animals, in days"
- short note and summary of different eras in different cultures according to different theories of creation
- notes from reading a "Review of History of India as told by its own historians" from 'Academy' 11 Sep 1886.
Inserts:
- Scraps of paper with a short glossary with word meanings in English and a note on the population of Parsis in different parts of the world
- transliteration of a Pahlavi excerpt
- Reading room request form
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- English
- Persian
- Pahlavi
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- West Edward William 1824-1905 (Subject)