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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/12
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Saddar in Gujarati (from 1. 3043, collated with the Persian text) and other texts
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- [1844 - 1905] (Creation)
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1 notebook
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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
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- English
- Gujarati
- German
- Pahlavi
- Avestan
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Some of the writings in this volume can be found here.
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- West Edward William 1824-1905 (Subject)
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Archivist's note
Contains more inserts than other volumes, some of them are indecipherable to a layperson's eye. Book binding is wearing off. Handle with care.