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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/60
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Part of a transcript of the text of the Yasna, Visperad and Vendidad
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- 24th Jun 1850 (Creation)
- [1844 - 1905] (Creation)
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1 notebook
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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.
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- English
- Gujarati
- Pahlavi
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- West Edward William 1824-1905 (Subject)