Description: Loose folios, handwritten mainly in ink, some drawing on tracing papers.
Contents: A mixed collection of papers concerning glossaries, inscriptions, etc. including:

• "Pahlavi Kanheri Cave Inscriptions"
• Notes on the Iranian Pahlavi Rivāyat"
• Index folio 420a 5 to 427a 2
• "Alternative theory (to account for the Semitic words being all the commonest)"
• "Date of Marriage Contract in DJ and DP"
• "Ancient modification of the Sanskrit Alphabet"
• glossary
• "Names on Sasanian coins"
• "Bundahash index Nos. of words beginning with each letter and compound"
• "Glossary of Ancient Persian from Spiegel's Alt. Pers. Keillinschiften"
• "unusual words from Destur Roshangji's glossary to Shikand grammar"
• "Comparison of Zand alphabet "
• "In the Academy of September 7 (p.244) Mr Rogers announced the discovery of a number of papyri fragments..."
• Calculations concerning the observation of an eclipse
• "Transliteration of the original Persian text"
• "Javanisch" and "Pehlewi" alphabets - printed material
• "The Caslon Orientals" - printed scripts from H.W. Caslon and Co., London
• Other notes and tracings

Description: Green soft cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 55 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Pahlavi-English Syntax glossary with references to Denkart
Inserts:

• scrap paper titled, "Pahl. words from Avesta"
• blotting paper,
• blank scrap of paper titled "officials Dk. Viii"

The Papers of Edward William West reflect his interest in Pahlavi language and Zoroastrianism. The majority are handwritten notebooks and other manuscripts in which he did his work. These often have many inserts. There are also loose handwritten notes, some correspondence and some printed material.

Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, hand written in ink, inserts held in place with string and brass paperclips, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 2 in de Menasche handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi & Pazand Shikhand-gumani (first part), from L15,23
• End of Pahlavi Rivayat, from L15
• Pahlavi Patet-I Khud, from the same
• Pahlavi duties of ameshaspends, from the same
• Pahalvi Gosht-I Fryano, from the same
• Pazand Patet-I Adarbad Mardspend, from the same
• Pazand-Sankstrit Minokhand, from L19 with commentary on the condition of the original text, its discrepancies and its mixture of lanuages
• Copy of the Buwahirin Fragment
• "Collation of the OW portion of the 2 & PW"
• Zand-Pahlavi prayers & miyayish, from L12 Inserts: Pahlavi version of the Yatha Ahi Vairyo rayer from the London E.I. Library
• Indexical information
• Transcript of Pazand Menok-i-Xrat from London
• MSS Shayast-ne-Sayast from London MSS

Inserts:

• Pahlavi version of the Yatha Ahi Vairyo rayer from the London E.I. Library,
• plastic indexical information newspaper clipping on "The Lost Canon of Berosus"
• miscellaneous numerical calculations