Description: Blue and yellow patterned soft cover notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 50 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi Glossary. On the inside cover there is a list of all the sources used and their respective abbreviations. West also notes the words that don't appear in any glossary.
Pahlavi Language
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Description: Unbound notebook with loose folios from the same, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 51 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- A Pahlavi-English Glossary of V (Vendidad, Spiegel)
- W (Visparad Sp. as given in H. 6, see MS., vols. 3, p. 207)
- C = MS. vol. 3 (page and line ref. all words glossarized except those in list), from pp. 33 - 109, but afterwords only rare words
- M = MS. vol. 13, only rare words glossarized .
Inserts:
- Words to be omitted in Glossary
- Reference to Zend sentences
- Inscriptions of Cyrus
- list of Latin abbreviations commonly found in dictionaries
Description: Brown hardcover notebook, unruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 52 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- "Most valuable notes as regards to 'Dinkard,' etc
*." A Pahlavi-English Glossary with full references to Denkart Bks. VII - IX - "Pazand Texts prepared by Dastur Hoshangji"
Inserts:
- several folios and scraps of paper containing calculations on lines and number of words, rough drafts of paragraphs of future essays, fragments of translation, word meanings, "additional Huzvarish words"
- additional Hebrew-Huzvarish words;
- "notes from Prof. M. J. Muller's 'Essai en la Langue Pehlive,' Paris 1839"
- omission of words from glossary, diagram that seems like a map to a library or a possible ordering of books or a potential reading method; Some of the inserts in the latter part of the book are loose pages.
Description: Black softcover notebook with unruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 53 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Incipient sketch of vocabulary" Pahlavi-English Dictionary with references to Denkart.
Description: Black softcover notebook with unruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 54 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Sparse initial […] to a glossary." Initial steps taken to make the glossary. Pahlavi-English glossary with references to Dẽnkart.
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"
Description: Black hard cover notebook with unruled pages, written in ink. Some inserts. Identified as West 58 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Observations of Germany Drawings of two buildings in Germany with structural descriptors (i.e. size, width, height) "Atlantic cable of 1866" progress table with distance and percentage covered "Guesses at the meaning of 666, quoted by Professor DeMorgan from Mr. David Thom's 'The number and names of Apocalyptic Beasts' Part I, 1848, 8vo A Pahlavi Glossary in transcription with some translation and sparse references
Description: Loose sheets, handwritten in ink and pencil, plus two article proofs with handwritten annotations.
Contents:
- Title page "Articles regarding Avesta & Pahlavi Texts by E.W.W. 1869-1896 with Index"
- Pahlavi letters and compounds occurring in the Pahlavi glossary
- "Alphabet from Inscriptions on Delhi Column"
- Inscription from a stone found near Devikapara
- "A short summary of the texts contained in the old Pahlavi Codex MK"
- "On the transliteration of Pahlavi" - 2 versions
- Notes on Zarathustra's doctrine regarding the Soul"
- "Parsee Prakāsh", handwritten and offprint
- "Merits of ceremonies, p.212-213"
- Proof copy for a text concerning the Pahlavi text of the Gāthas with handwritten annotations
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
Printed material both authored by West and collated by him.
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