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.
Pahlavi Language
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Proofs for a glossary of Pahlavi words with transliteration, subdivided into chapter I - XXIII, Appendices I-V. Loose folios with handwritten corrections and handwritten insert.
West Edward William 1824-1905Description: 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: 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: Loose white and blue folios handwritten in ink kept inside a paper folder. Identified as West 47 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Some of the commoner Huzvarish words with their etymology [in Hebrew], arranged alphabetically" "Eramji Dastur Sohrabji Meharji Rana's Huz. & Pahl. Farjang Bombay A.Y. 1238." "Alphabetical list of Huzvarish verbs"
Menasce suggest these are mostly copies of earlier works.
West Edward William 1824-1905Description: 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: Tracing paper held with string with several loose folios, handwritten in ink and pencil. Fragile. Identified as West 49 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Alphabetical Index of Westergaard's edition of the Bundehesh to which are added all the Pahlavi words occurring in the Old Pahlavi-Pazand and Zand-Pahlavi Glossaries".
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: 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: Large white unruled notebook, no cover, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 46 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A Pahlavi-English glossary. References are given in numbers referring, most likely, to volumes and pages of West's own copies (according to de Menasce's list).