File EWW/1/9 - The Pahlavi Rivayat ch. XVIII (Dhabhar's ed.). Nirangistan, copied from Hoshang's MS. No. 8 collated with JamaspAsa's and Tehmuras Dinshaw's MSS.

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GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/9

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The Pahlavi Rivayat ch. XVIII (Dhabhar's ed.). Nirangistan, copied from Hoshang's MS. No. 8 collated with JamaspAsa's and Tehmuras Dinshaw's MSS.

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  • [1844 - 1905] (Creation)

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • "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

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  • Pahlavi

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