Description: White hard cover notebook with unruled pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts. Identified as West 62 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Pahlavi and Zand characters, compounds, vowels, consonants transliteration with original of "Commencement of the Pehlavi Bundehesh, perhaps of the 7th Centurty" which is then translated in the subsequent pages "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 . . ."

Inserts: folio serving an indexical purpose to the Yasn folios of linguistic study

This material is continued in EWW/1/61 and EWW/1/62.

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: Black soft cover notebook, ruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 29 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Transliteration and Translation of the Pahlavi version of Yasna XXXII, the fifth Chapter of the first Gatha" with an "Introduction" and "Concluding Remarks".

Description: Black hardcover notebook with cover missing and pages falling apart from the binding. Handwritten in ink. Inserts held in place with strings. Identified as West 13 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents [all from De Menasce's handlist]:

• Pp. 1-100: " Pahlavi Shahnamah MS. DJ. in the Library of D. Jamaspji Minochiharji Jamaspasa
• Pp. 101: Jamasp Namak ; Mali Fravartln Roc Xurdat; Afrins and Matigan i Si Roc from Sanjana's MS. called Pt in the Grundriss 66 sq.
• P. 122: Notes on MSS. of Nirangistan and on some other MSS in Indian Libraries
• P. 123: Incipit and Colophon of a MS. of Videvdat with Pahlavi translation (T. 12 " from the library of Shet Maneckji Limji Hatarya at Teheran . . . lent to Dr. Jamaspji Minochaharji").
• P. 128: Description of a MS. of Vishtap Yast Sadah belonging to Jamaspji. Description of other MSS. from the same library
• Pp. 200-301: Dadistan-i-Denik, from D. Jamaspji's MS. DJ. collated with K.
• Pp. 306-340: Dadistan-i-Denik (continued from vol 10, p. 246) from K.
• P. 341: Visprat with Pahlavi translation " from Dr. Haug's old MS. H. 6 ".

Inserts:

• pp 1 - 10 are inserts
• notes made on torn envelope
  *folios with "Note on Catrang-namak"
• "Vajorg-Mitr's explanation of Chess , addressed to Takht-retus, the envoy of the Indian King Devasarm to Khusro-I Anoshak-ruban"
• "Note on the Catrang-namak" A correspondence on March 17th (no year)
• folio with "vol 13 pg. 60, pg 61" written in the margin multiple
• scraps of paper: some are indexical, others contain alternate/possible translations
• Proof copy with corrections of "The Pahlavi Jamasp-Namak", contains notes and a short introduction by West
• "15. Note on the Catran-Namak" Proof copy with corrections
• "Dastun Darab's Pahlavi transcript of the Jamaspnamak, from his old Pahlavi Manuscript" Copied 8+9/2/1901 and "transcript of the beginning of the MS. H.7 in Pahlavi"
• "Colophon of J2 (Yasna with Pahlavi) fol 385b."
• Loose folio
• scrap of paper with calculations
• Print of "The Pand-Namah OR, Book of Counsels" by Abarbad Maraspand.
• "From Codex J. (described in Gundrias der Iran, Phil ii, iii"
• "Codex J. final Colophon by Mitroapan Kai-Khusro, 1322"
• "Sagastan"

"Pahlavi Literature by E.W.West" written for Iranische Philoloige Volume II. Printed proofs, pp. 65-144.

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 7 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi Din-kard (fragments) from H13a, loose folios 389-90, 399-400, 402-411 of DS, description of MSS. DR & DS
• Multiple folios from Pahlavi Dinkard book 1st from Bombay Govt. MS. at Deccan College
• "Pahlavi text of Menok-i-Xrat copied from a fascimile of the old codex brought from Persia by the Westergaard in 1843-4
• A description of the DS of Denkart
• Persian colophon to M13a (Haug's MS. of Dinkard, IV - IX)
• "Differences between the old Pahl. and Paz. texts of mkh"
• Denkart Bk. III down to ch. 123 (Sanjana = Madan p. 119), copied from a copy belonging to the Bombay Government, collated with D.S.
• The lost folios from Hoshang's Denkart MS
• Denkart Bk. VIII continued
  *. Menok i Xrat from the Kopenhagen MS
• Beginning of Denkart Bk. VIII

Inserts:

• "Nouvelle Acquisitions de Manuscrits Pehlevis A Kopenhague" in Print by E.W West and "Recent additions to the Pahlavi manuscripts at Kopenhagen" handwritten by E.W. West; a note and description of missing folios (pp. 46-47)
• scrap of paper with original script and transliteration
• single folio written in Pahlavi script, ink with a signature in the arabic script
• envelope with notes
• notes on "the scanty information of Bukht-marare" written on the cover of the RASJ Part 1, dated 1900
• A description of The Dinkard, Vols VIII & IX, by Pehstan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana and a note to other Pahlavi scholars on research yet to be done written on ruled loose folios
• small loose folios with an "Estimate of words in books 3 - 9 of Dinkard" and estimate number of words in Haug's copy of Dinkard
• small loose folio titled "Colophons of Professor Haug's Dinkart"
• folio with a slightly illegible passage with questions like: "Any further folios of Dinkard?"

Description: Loose sheets, mainly handwritten in ink, identified as West 57B in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:

• "Notes from H. Speight's 'Niddendale and Garden of the Nidd'" (8/3/1899)
• Excerpts and summaries from Rawlinson
• A draft of Persian history with reference to History of Persian (London 1815)
• "Notes on some minor Pahlavi texts"
• "Conclusion of Ganj-i Shaigan, from the Tehran MS. (continued from p.11, l.11 ed. Peshton)"
• Excerpts with translations fol. 47a and 74b
• Excerpts from Denkart
• "Notes on First Series of the Selections of Zad-sparam" and serves an indexical purpose to West 10 (Vol. 10)
• "From App. To Dr.. Wm. Rovertson's Disquistion. . . " concerning a 1791 book on India
• Map of 16 Gunterstone Road
• blue folio with Pahlavi and Pazand sentence fragments
• "Pahlavi Alphabets"
• calculation of day
• Books noticed and reviewed in the "Academy" from 1874 - 88
• List of books and MSS "Pahlavi Literature" - a list with word count of each text
• An academic to-do list relating to Dk.
• A glossary
• List of Shahnamah names
• A short newspaper review on "The book of Sage Jamasp"
• Letter and Library Card for E.W. West for the British Museum with envelope
• "Defective lines at the foot of folios" fol.232a (p.286,2) - fol237b (p.300,1)
• "The remaining texts a/// [are] contained in the second MS. of 42 additional folios and are as follows"
• "Bund. Queries"; references to West 13 (Vol. 13) serving an indexical purpose, missing folios noted in red
• copying history of the "Yas" MSS
• Selections of Zad-Sparam
• blue and red page numbers with line numbers
• "Dk. III"
• Eight Reading room request forms
• A copy of a snakes and ladders game with translations. Source of game unidentified

The manuscripts compiled by Edward William West. Many of these were listed by de Menasce. West was interested in many topics which are reflected in these manuscripts.

Kār-nāmak i Azdašū i Pāpakān, printed in script with English footnotes within a red, green, and blue patterned softcover notebook. Also contains handwritten inserts. On inside cover is written "Kār-nāmak i Azdašū i Pāpakān [E.W. West's Copy]".

Proofs from J.J. Modi's Jāmāspī in Pahlavi. Persian and Pazand texts. Unbound material stamped with "Rough Proof from B.E.S. Press" 18 February and 24 February 1902. The texts were published in 1897 and 1903.