GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/90

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• [1844 - 1905] (Creation)

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

Description: Loose folios, handwritten mainly in ink, some drawing on tracing papers. Contents: A mixed collection of papers concerning glossaries, inscriptions, etc. including: * "Pahlavi Kanheri Cave Inscriptions" * Notes on the Iranian Pahlavi Rivāyat" * Index folio 420a 5 to 427a 2 * "Alternative theory (to account for the Semitic words being all the commonest)" * "Date of Marriage Contract in DJ and DP" * "Ancient modification of the Sanskrit Alphabet" * glossary * "Names on Sasanian coins" * "Bundahash index Nos. of words beginning with each letter and compound" * "Glossary of Ancient Persian from Spiegel's Alt. Pers. Keillinschiften" * "unusual words from Destur Roshangji's glossary to Shikand grammar" * "Comparison of Zand alphabet " * "In the Academy of September 7 (p.244) Mr Rogers announced the discovery of a number of papyri fragments..." * Calculations concerning the observation of an eclipse * "Transliteration of the original Persian text" * "Javanisch" and "Pehlewi" alphabets - printed material * "The Caslon Orientals" - printed scripts from H.W. Caslon and Co., London * Other notes and tracings

• English
• German
• Avestan
• Pahlavi
• Persian