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• [1844 - 1905] (Creation)

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

Description: Black hardbound leather notebook with ruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Several inserts. Identified as West 70 in de Menasce handlist. Contents: * British Museum Additional Oriental MS. 22,379 Vocabulary Pahl.-Z.-Pers. * Persian couplets from the same; description of content and objects in the Ouseley Collection (i.e. Bundahish) * copied from "Pahlavi inscriptions . . . By Mordtmann from ZDMG Vol. 18, p.1 - 52 1864. . . . quoting Thomas JRAS Vol.13 and others. * coins with Pahlavi inscription "of Subordinate kings of Persian provinces under the Seleucidie from Alexander the Great" copied from Dr. M.A. Levy's article in ZDMG Vol 21, p.421 - 465, 1867 * Description and excerpt from the British Museum "MSS Reg.16. B.V., Yasna Sadah (Hyde's MS) * "Darmester's notes and copy of the Vaetha fargard of the Nihadum Nask" from Journal Asiatique (1886) pp. 182 - 6 * Sketch of the Karnamak-i Artakhati-i Papkan * Burnell's "On Some Pahlavi Inscriptions in South India" * "French Republican Calendar" from 1793 * Notes of the Literary Remains of Emmanuel Deutsch * Notes on some books with relevance to the study of Persia and Zoroastrianism * Notes from Alfred von Gustchnid's Geschilte Irans und seinen Nachbarlanden von Alexander dem Grossen bis zim intergang der Arsaciden * "Plutarch de Isde et Osiride" trans. by Gustv Parthey * A page on the Portinigal Yew Inserts: * folio stuck to page titled "Alphabet corresponds closely with those in B29 and K25, with a few differences:" * Reading room request forms * scraps of paper serving an indexical purpose to other articles or MSS "to-do" list * folio with list of books pertaining to the Talmud and Judaism * two scraps of papers with "Inscriptiones Paleo-Persicae Achemendiarum, primus edidit et explicavit, by Dr. Cajetanus Kossowicz, Petropoli, 1872" * summary of Salemann's Ueber ein Paresenhandschrift (1879)

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