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: 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".

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.

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)

• 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: 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

Printed material both authored by West and collated by him.

Description: 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

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.

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).