The Papers of Edward William West reflect his interest in Pahlavi language and Zoroastrianism. The majority are handwritten notebooks and other manuscripts in which he did his work. These often have many inserts. There are also loose handwritten notes, some correspondence and some printed material.

Description: Dark green hardcover unruled notebook with blue pages handwritten in ink. Inserts held with strings. Identified as West 31 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents:

• Zand i Bahman Yast, a Pazand text
• "Contents of the Seventh Fargard of the Sidkhar Nask [Sutgar Nask] from the Dinkard, fol. 377 ab"
• "Contents of the Hadokht Nask from Dinkard, fol. 374b. - 375a" Transliteration and Translation

Inserts: folios with "Properties of Nitrogen" and a folio on Oxygen and loose folios that make Bahman Yasht in Middle Persian.

Description: White unruled loose folios, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 40 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: A short overview on the sources of Nirangistan "(which begins with a portion of the Aerpatistan, the two being two sections of the first thirty of the Husparam), Nirangistan. Transcribed; Translation takes place on the first two pages, and the remaining pages all have the second half of the page empty, awaiting translation.

Inserts:

• Nirangistan with pencil markings and gap from pp. 2 - 6
• scraps of paper with "Passages in Niragistan, mentioning the Kadokha", "Indication of my Nir. MS. being independent. . .", "Nirangistan MS. p. 1" with short notes on collation and origins, Table of contents of Aerpatistan and Niranngistan, comparison of Westergaard's Nirangistan with Bombay MS., Beginning of "the Iranian text of the Nirangistan"
• folio from "the Rivayat of Hemid-i Asavahisthan (?) Pahl. Lit. 50 (Tehmuras's Letter of 1/12/94)", "copied from K41 by D. Anderson".

Description: Blue-green patterned hard cover note book with blue ruled pages, handwritten in ink and pencil. Several inserts. Identified as West 66 in de Menasce handlist.

Contents: Continuation of West 66; Extracts with translation of Framji's appendix.

Inserts:

• folio with folio numbers of the Yasna with possibly sentence long summaries of sets of folios
• folio with "Yasna XXVII" with word and idiom meanings
• scrap of paper with "ta," "da," etc.
• scrap of paper with possibly folio numbers

Description: Black hardbound leather notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.

Contents:
Copy of Anquetil-du Perron's Zend-Avesta Vol 2., section "Bound-dehesch"

• Mordtmann's Chronology of the Sasanian dynasty" which was later corrected when an updated article came in ZDMG in 1881
• "[F.] Justi's translation of the Bundehesh" copy of a small part of Der Bundehesh

Inserts:

• folio titled "Wanted two small books" with detailed descriptions of the two books
• newspaper clipping from "The Academy" from 10 August 1878

Description: Blue soft cover notebook with ruled pages, handwritten in ink. Identified as West 43 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "From the latter part of the Khrudesh Avesta MS. F2 (see vol. 18, p.163)" Description and table of contents of "Miscellaneous MSS. from Earl Crawford's library at Haigh House, Nigam" Vol I - IV Description and short note on "Dasama Padsha-ka Granth, one of the sacred books of the Sikhs" "Prithvi-raj-ki katha, vol IV" from p769 - 775 transliterated