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- [1844 - 1905] (Creation)
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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"
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- Persian
- Pahlavi
- Avestan
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De Menasce's remarks with regard to the Pahlavi Shahnamah: "A copy of the MS. which was published under the title of Tlie Pahlavi Texts contained in the Codex M.K. . . . edited by ... J. M. Jamasp-Asana, Bombay 1897-1913. West's copy is collated with a few other MSS., as indicated on p. 60." (55)
De Menasce's remark with regard to K[openhagen] MS.: "is not the Kopenhagen MS., noted as W (Westergaard), but another copy of the latter, also written in Kirman. See Grundriss 45." (56)
De Menasce's remark with regard to the identification of this document as West 13: "This copybook has lost its cover but there is no doubt as to its being vol. 13 to which cross-references are found in other volumes."
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This MS. does not have a cover. Please handle with care. Folio 55 is loose.
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- West Edward William 1824-1905 (Subject)