GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/70

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• [1844 - 1905] (Creation)

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

Description: Thin black hardbound notebook with unruled white pages, handwritten in ink. Some inserts. Contents: * "Headings of Sections of Shanamah from Macan's edition, Calcutta 1829" * Pahlavi-transliterated-Persian words where some have folio and MS. numbers; short unorganized notes on Pahlavi and Persian grammar * summary of article by Professor Terrein de Lacouperie in the "Academy" from 10 Oct. 1885, p.243-4 # * notes on inscriptions and their locations in libraries * notes on printing and correcting proofs calculations relating to the sun, moon, and the earth * notes on different coins * "Period of Gestation in Various animals, in days" * short note and summary of different eras in different cultures according to different theories of creation * notes from reading a "Review of History of India as told by its own historians" from 'Academy' 11 Sep 1886. Inserts: * Scraps of paper with a short glossary with word meanings in English and a note on the population of Parsis in different parts of the world * transliteration of a Pahlavi excerpt * Reading room request form

• English
• Persian
• Pahlavi