Description: Thin black softcover notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts.
Contents: Professor Ferdinand Justi's Essay "On the Life and Legend of Zoroaster"
Inserts: A folio serving an indexical purpose to Denkart, and a further folio with German-English translation.
Zoroastrianism
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Description: Black soft cover notebook, ruled with white pages, handwritten in ink. Multiple inserts. Identified as West 41 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: Detailed contents list of the Rivayat of Darab Hormazyar. The pages indicated are those of BU 29 (no. 29 of the Parsi MSS. in the Bombay University Library).
Inserts: De Menasce has inserted in this volume a concordance between the pagination of this MS and of some other, and the incipit and colophon of a Persian Rivayat written by an oriental hand. Also folios outlining the history of Parsis migration and settlement
West Edward William 1824-1905Description: Blue and brown patterned hardcover notebook, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of contents with page numbers. Identified as West 3 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents:
- Pahlavi Pandamak-I Buzung Mihir, from H16 and K29
- Pahalavi Karnamak-I Aradashir-I Papakan, from H15
- Pahalavi Rivayat, from H6, miscellaneous passage, gifts & qualities of 30 Yazads
- Pahlavi Pandnamak, from K29
- Pahlavi Bahman Yasht, from K29, answers of Aashna, the sage, to his disciple, the cursed abalish, Yasht fragments, Hadokcht Nask; Zand-Pahlavi Visparad, from H6
- Description of 21 Nasko extracted from a MS. of Dinik Vajarkand in Dr. Noshinvanji's Library at Poona
- On the Pahlavi Shahnamah MS. T. which is "Dastur Jamashji's copy of his ancester Dastur Jamshapji's copy of his own old MS. DJ"
- beginning of the Den Vicirkart (from the Poona MS. belonging to Dastur Hoshangji Jamaspji; the end is in vol. 19
- Introductions and Postscripts collected by Prof Geldner, received 1893
Inserts:
- list of MSS. described
- "Contents of Shayash-nashayash"
- descriptions, notes and summaries to other texts miscellaneous numerical calculations
- scraps of paper that serve an indexical purpose
Description: Blue-green patterned hard cover note book with blue ruled pages handwritten in ink and pencil. Several inserts. Identified as West 65 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "The 'Yasna' from the Gujarati transcript of Aspandiarji Framji . . . Printed in Bombay in 1218 of Yazdagard" This translation from Pahlavi to Gujurati was certified by "Dozabhai Jamshedji under the date 5 July 1849 A.D.) (A.D. 1850): English translation, including the rubrics, with notes on the textual variants.
Inserts: Note and an excerpt "[f]rom Dr. J. Burgess's letter Oct. 17th. 1898"
West Edward William 1824-1905Description: Loose folios within a blue soft cover. Identified as West 42 in de Menasce handlist.
Contents: "Vishtasp Shanamah" A transcription and partial translation of the Ayatar I Zareran (cross-references are given to the text as copied in Vol. 13.) in the de Menasce list, written in pencil in the text is "Yadka-i-Zariran".
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.
West Edward William 1824-1905