Huraw-i-Rawadan ud Redag-e; and further unidentified text. Printed in script with English footnotes. Uncovered, bound with thread.
Pahlavi literature
52 Archival description results for Pahlavi literature
Description: Loose white and blue folios handwritten in pencil and ink. Identified as West 44 in de Menasce handlist'
Contents: Fragments of translations from the Kārnāmak i Ardašīr, Andarz, Pahlavi Vidẽvdāt and others plus "notes on Vendidad Kandahti".
Description: Softcover green notebook with "EXERCISE BOOK" written on the cover, with ruled pages, handwritten in ink, multiple inserts. Identified as West 35 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Traditions of Zaratusht of Pahlavi MS by E.W. West" catalogued under No. CCXXVIII. with annotations that note missing folios; pp15 - 17: A short note on "Traditions of Zaratusht" and its importance for Zoroastrian Studies being an orignal MS. from Iran. Along with this there is also a note by de Mensace added in 5/4/1949 locating the MS and commenting on its current use.
Inserts:
- Folio with calculations of number of lines per page
- 8 folios titled "Memoranda of 52 Oriental Manuscripts, from Bombay, catalogued by Edward G. Browne Esquire of Pembroke College, Cambridge, and classified as follows:- 18 Zoroastrian MSS. 28 Persian MSS. 4 Arabic MSS. and 2 Hindustani MSS."
- Folio with "Sins worthy of death" [semi-translation] by E.W.W. on June 16th 1902
- folio with list of short summaries of events that take place from 266, 7 to 292,
- 11 scraps of paper with calculations pertaining to number folios, lines, etc.
- Folio with drafts of introduction remarking on his work of collation of the modern MSS with older MS
- Supplementary note similar to note on pp 15 - 17
- "Index to the folios of the Iranian Pahlavi Rivayat. Missing folios in red ink" and a "continuation [of notes] form page 4"
Description: Red-brown soft cover notebook, ruled pages, and handwritten in ink. Cover and several pages are loose. Multiple inserts. First page is stamped with a Bombay Education Society's Press mark, dated 6 August 1900. Identified as West 36 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "First Series of the Selections of Zad-Sparam" To C: Loose folios originating from book from pp. 1 - 20 contain Ch. I to IV, pp. 48 - 73 contain Ch. X - XVIII in the original Pahlavi and Transliterated. Loose folios with papers originating from different sources with the same text translated - pp. 29 - 47 [fol. no. 1 - 11] contain Ch. XII - XIX, fol. no. 11 -20 contain Ch. XX - XXIV.
Inserts: Scrap of paper with comparison of different Pahlavi scripts and scraps of paper serving an indexical purpose.
Note de Menasce description of this item appears to be inaccurate.
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 8 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- Denkart Bk III continued to Chapter 372 (Sanjana = Madan p.354)
- Babylonian Chronology from George Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol. 3
- Kings of Assyria from Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol 2.
- Mythology of the Chaldeans from Rawlinson's Ancient Monarchies Vol 1.
Inserts:
- Explanation of the word "homast"
- folios with Pahlavi transliteration and its English translation, the passage identifying marks are written in the corner of each: pp.181-183 and pp. 238 & 56
- A blue folio with words meanings in Pahlavi and English, some of which have question marks next to them
- folio with list of words and page numbers they can be found on
- folio with passage DKa 313, 3
- folio with "Zand words in Din-Kard"
- folio with a few more words, mostly blank
- Gujarati newspaper article with the articles: "Pehlvi Inscriptions in South India," "Important Speech by Lord North Brook in the Delhi Durbar" from the newspaper "Rast Gopukar Tatha Satya Prakash"
- [unmailed/draft of a] letter to the editor of "The Academy" regarding the inclusion of Pahlavi texts
- Four Folios of description, praise, and introductions for "The Dinkard"
- loose folios that serve an index
- On the back of a Times of India "Saturday Afternoon Edition" announcement leaflet "Sections of Book III not quoted from Nike-i-Vehedas"
Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, with multiple inserts. Identified as West 32 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Denkart Bk. III continued from vol. 8 and completed to the end of Bk. III.
Inserts:
- Book Review of "The Dinkard, Vol VI." by Peshotan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana, Print from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Jan 1882 pp. 170-2
- Translation of "Denkard (Acts of Religion), Book 3" by Peshotan Dastur Behramjee Sanjana pp. 555 - 78
- Folios of transliteration and translation of "Dinkard Book III, last but one chapter - Pahlavi Text from the MS. B, written in 1659, and brought from Iran to Surat in 1783" note from EWW: "But from a copy supplied by Dastur D. Jamaspji , which I have been unable to collate with the original MS."
- Folio with translation of "Dk III, chap. 261 (Peshotan, ed. trans. vol vi. p.405) and "The three Lunar Periods in Avesta, OC"
- Folio with "Beginnings of Folios"
- "Great Western Railway Suburban Timeline" of December 1882
- scraps of paper with different translations and transliterations
Proofs from Tehmuras Dinshaji Anklesaria's Dātistān-ī-Dīnīk - Pūrsishn I - XXXVII. Blue-green patterned soft cover, bound book with handwritten annotations and some handwritten inserts. On inside of the cover is written "Pahlavi text, The Datistan-i Dinik - partially corrected by E.W. West". The text was finally published by Anklesaria's son in 1910.
West Edward William 1824-1905Dānāk-i-Mẽnōk-i-Xrat, printed in script with English footnotes. Sanskrit translation/Pazand - Pahlavi written in Avestan letters/Pahlavi. Uncovered, bound with thread. Handwritten on cover, "Dānāk-i-Mẽnōk-i-Xrat [E.W. West's copy]"
Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 27 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Dādistān i Mẽnōk i Xrat, transliteration and translation.
Description: Dark green hardcover, unruled notebook, handwritten in ink with one insert. Identified as West 22 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Dadistan I Denik 1880-1" Transliteration and translation.