Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 27 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: The Epistles of Mānušcihr. Transliteration and translation of the text and the appendices as given in SBE 18.
Pahlavi literature
52 Archival description results for Pahlavi literature
Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 3 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- Pahlavi Pandamak-I Buzung Mihir, from H16 and K29
- Pahalavi Karnamak-I Aradashir-I Papakan, from H15
- Pahalavi Rivayat, from H6, miscellaneous passage, gifts & qualities of 30 Yazads
- Pahlavi Pandnamak, from K29
- Pahlavi Bahman Yasht, from K29, answers of Aashna, the sage, to his disciple, the cursed abalish, Yasht fragments, Hadokcht Nask; Zand-Pahlavi Visparad, from H6
- Description of 21 Nasko extracted from a MS. of Dinik Vajarkand in Dr. Noshinvanji's Library at Poona
- On the Pahlavi Shahnamah MS. T. which is "Dastur Jamashji's copy of his ancester Dastur Jamshapji's copy of his own old MS. DJ"
- beginning of the Den Vicirkart (from the Poona MS. belonging to Dastur Hoshangji Jamaspji; the end is in vol. 19
- Introductions and Postscripts collected by Prof Geldner, received 1893
Inserts:
- list of MSS. described
- "Contents of Shayash-nashayash"
- descriptions, notes and summaries to other texts miscellaneous numerical calculations
- scraps of paper that serve an indexical purpose
Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 33 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Shkand gumanik vicar "in Pahlavi nach Cod. Havn no. 28" (probably copied by Haug, with collations by West).
Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink. One insert.
Contents:
- Shāyast-nẽ-šāyast, transliteration and translation
- p56a: "From the Dinkard, book VIII (fol. 336a)"
Inserts: folio working out the trigonometry behind the positions under the sun, tables on equinoxes and shadows.
West Edward William 1824-1905Description: Black hardcover with white specks, white pages, handwritten in ink, with inserts, detailed table of contents and page numbers. Identified as West 12 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- Sad-dar from L3043 in Persian (in Zand Letters)-Gujrati collated with Persian texts (L2506)
- Izeshne ceremonies (copy of Haug's papers in German)
- A copy of MM10 (J.M. Muller's MS. In Munich Library) Fragments of Bundahish and Shikand-gumani
- "From Prof. Haug's papers. -- Die Parsi Cermonien nach mündliechen Mittheilungen"
- "On the use of Mantras in the Atharveda" from Prof. Haug's papers
Inserts:
- A list of papers on page 138, "presumably Haug's in the Munich Library"
- Folio with images of "Inscription on the Babylonian Bricks" "Seal of one of the Egyptian Pharaohs," "Stamps from Herculaneum."
- An "Expiration of Subscription" from Wm. Dawson & Sons Folio with "Estimate of extent of extra translations for Appendix"
- blank folios
- transliterated fragments of unmarked MS
- "Hom yasht divided into verses by Haug"
- papers that serve as an index
- translation of an unidentified fragment
- "Sad-dar-e . . . p.9 - 13" draft for an introduction "Arabic words in Sad-dar"
- "Index to Sad-dar (following Persian MSS)
- multiple scraps of paper containing fragments of the introduction
- list of words in Arabic script and its transliteration
- Persian manuscript copied down with notes in French
- rough floor plan
Printed material both authored by West and collated by him.
West Edward William 1824-1905Description: 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
Description: Green, blue and pink pattered hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 6 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- Pahlavi Denkard, from H13a ("no more copied, as I have another complete copy that collates with the most original MS. In Bombay, H13 and all other Bombay copies are derived)
- Two versions of Bahman Yasht
- Jamaspi [MS.]
- Ahktami-I Jamasp Hakim
- Afrim-I Zanatusht, Persian
- Du'a-i Bahran-i Vanjanand, Pazand
- Du'a-i Hushidan Bahram Vanjanand
- Du'a-i Ham Stayishu kih Ba'd az hyayish u Yashit mi khevanand ba ma'ni navisam
- Du'a-i ham-stagishni Paz-Pers.
- Other Rivayat texts
- Dia Kas Bk VI end and VII.
- Ulama i Islama (all from MSS. in the Library of the University of Bombay)
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Denkart Bk. VI end (pp. 585, line 17 to 590 in Madan's edition). Fragment from Denkart Bk. VII.
Inserts:
- scraps of papers with numbers referencing books and personal papers, miscellaneous calculations, word meanings;
- "E.W. West's Transcript of the Pahlavi Denkard, Book VI" a note seemingly about an exhibition on West in "the [Royal Asiatic] Society"
- torn financial documents from "The Machinery Trust Limited" used to note calculations and page numbers in Pahlavi Texts.
Description: Green hard cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 63 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Continuation of West 62 (EWW/1/60). "The following transcript contains the text of the Yasna, Visparad & Vendidad mingled together in the usual order. The text of the Yasna has been compared throughout with the text in Gujarati characters of Aspandiji Framji . . ."
Description: Purple blue and grey patterned hard cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with string. Identified as West 64 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Continuation of West 62 and 63 (EWW/1/60 and EWW/1/61).
Inserts: scraps of paper with "copy of Zend from words Journal As. Soc. Vol. 4".