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.

Fourteen items of correspondence from Darab Dastur Peshotan Sanjana to Edward William West. The topic of these letters are the translation of a Denkart, K43, and other questions about translation. The two exchange some of their texts during this period and Sanjana thanks West for helping with the collation of the discrepanies in Sanjana's late father's manuscript. Identified as part of West 57A in de Menasce handlist.

Ayadar-i-Zareran (pp. 1 - 8 […] 17 - 24), printed in script with English footnotes. Uncovered, bound with thread.

Dānāk-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: 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: Green and blue patterned hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 9 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Pahlavi Nirangistan copied from Haug's MS. H8 ("now H.53 of the Zend bodices in the State Library at Munchen")
• A short note by West written on Feb. 6. 1893 on the relationship between his copy and the MS. he copied from
• alphabets of Devanagari script
• short note on "TD3, a modern copy of a MS. of the Nirangistan bought from Persia a few years ago" and a comparison of it to the Bombay MSS.

Inserts:

• "Alphabet of the Shekwati inscription, dated A.D. 973 (Samvat 1030)"
• folio with calculations, descriptions of folios, and some index information
• folio with "Observations" on the Devanagari script
• scrap of paper with transliteration of words and corresponding index information
• folio titled "Further references from Nirangistan, after vol. 9. p. 144. . . "
• small piece of paper that seems to note differences between some manuscripts West was consulting
• scrap paper with calculations
• scrap paper with note regarding errors in TD, guide to symbols in "collations"
• folio titled "End of Nirangistan" two folios serving an index purpose

Description: Black and brown hardcover bound notebook with white pages. Handwritten in ink with detailed table of contents and page numbers. Inserts held in place with string. Identified as West 15 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Continuation of contents of Rivayat MS. N. 29 (B29a) of Bombay University Library (continued from vol. 14. p. 241)
• On p.23: Az kitah-I Sadidar Nasan - Dan chihal u panjum in-kih [as in vol. 12 (West 12 or EWW/1/12), p.50, 51, see pencilled collation there]

Inserts:

• Copied from Prof. Goldman's letter 14 April 1885, following copies from E2 (modern Khurdah Avesta belonging to Dastur Edalju Darabji Rustamji Sanjana)
• A list of transliterated Sanskrit words with their meanings in English copied from "Wilson's Sanskrit Dictionary"
• "Sasanian Pahlavi Matrixes and Type"

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, 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

Description: Black hard cover, unruled notebook, with white pages handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 34 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Pp. 1 - 135: "The 'Iranian Bundahish' from Darmester's copy of the MS. TD. belonging to Tehmuras Dinshawji Anklesaria in Bombay, collated in red (above) with his collation of his second MS. DS. as far as p27, l. 20 of this book, and there forward from his collation in his own copy TD. Also collated with TD, Tehmuras' [sic.] own copy of (red pages) whose variants in text are noted in pencil above, and those in collation in footnotes when they are additional alterations" It should be noted that de Menasace gives a detailed description of this manuscript in his list.

Inserts:

• folios with "Contents of Tehmuras's DS MS. (letter of 27 Oct. 82)" stuck to the cover page
• folios serving indexical purpose
• folio with abstract for "Iranian Bundahish XXXIX"
• several scraps of paper serving as markers
• scrap of paper from "asst. lib" suggesting "pp. 137 - 202 [of] MS. 34. [is] exerographed" dated: Nov. 10. 1969
• correspondence between Miss Fell of the Royal Asiatic Society and Kej Barr: postcard from Barr to Fell thanking her for her services with apologies for his tardy response dated: 7.7. 50: letter remarking that "The sample pages of West's Book no. 34 has [been] dispatched 12. 5. '50", Short letter on the Photostat Service and payment from Fell to Barr dated: 12. 5. '50", note card that might have served as a reminder, note card with address of Prof. Barr, receipt from Photostat service. All of these items are from the year 1950 between the Assistant Librarian of the Royal Asiatic Society and Professor Kaj Barr of Denmark.
• folio with "Persons whose opinions are quoted"
• a calendar card from December 1896 with calculations corresponding to the Jewish Adar and the Persian Atur