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• 1867 (Creation)

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

Description: Green brown patterned hardbound notebook with white pages, unruled, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 69 in de Menasce handlist. Contents: * p.3 - 9" Ancient Persian, or Pahlavi words occurring in Richardson's Persian Dictionary" * pp.11 - 17: notes on the Chaldean language, Assyrian language, from Rawlinson's "Ancient Monarchies" * p19. "Type used in an Italian book, printed at Venice in March 1531." * pp. 21 - 22: "List of Hindi plays, given by Prof. H. H. Wilson" * pp. 23 - 47: "Pahlavi Vocabulary from Anquetil du Perron's Zend Avesta" * pp. 49 - 51: "List of Zend & Pahlavi MSS. in E. I. Library, Westminster" * pp. 51 - 68: Zend and Pahlavi alphabetic typefaces and style copied from different MSS from different libraries and people (i.e Dr. Haug, Rivayat 29a belonging to Bombay University) * pp. 70 - 82: Phoenician script and its translations (copy of other works) * pp. 82 - 88: Zand, Pahlavi, and Persian colophons "Colophon at end of Z. - Pahl. Glos. in N. (2) as given by Destur Hozhangji," "Extract from Dr. Haug's old MS.," "Extract from Fol. 114 or 130a, next following the end of the Zand glossary," several short extracts from K20 * pp. 90 - 2: Syriac and Mendaean alphabet from "Hoffman's Gramatica Syrica" * Himyaritic alphabets * "Irish alphabets from Higgin's Celtic Druids" * "Electric Telegraph Alphabet" * "List of Persian Verbs, from Mirza Muhammmed Ibrahim's Persian Grammar" * Measures of the ancients, from Bunsen's * 'Egypt's place in universal history' * copy of different alphabets from the Journal of the Asiatic Society of France Vol. 1 * Parsi men's names from Bombay calendar * Persian Cuneiform alphabet and other alphabets copied from various sources * Abstract of the book of Enoch, from Archbishop Rich. Laurence's Translation

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