GB 891 EWW-EWW/1-EWW/1/6

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1 notebook

• [1844 - 1905] (Creation)

Royal Asiatic Society Archives

Description: Green, blue and pink pattered hardcover notebook with white pages, handwritten in ink, inserts held in place with string, detailed table of content and page numbers. Identified as West 6 in de Menasce handlist. Contents: * Pahlavi Denkard, from H13a ("no more copied, as I have another complete copy that collates with the most original MS. In Bombay, H13 and all other Bombay copies are derived) * Two versions of Bahman Yasht * Jamaspi [MS.] * Ahktami-I Jamasp Hakim * Afrim-I Zanatusht, Persian * Du'a-i Bahran-i Vanjanand, Pazand * Du'a-i Hushidan Bahram Vanjanand * Du'a-i Ham Stayishu kih Ba'd az hyayish u Yashit mi khevanand ba ma'ni navisam * Du'a-i ham-stagishni Paz-Pers. * Other Rivayat texts * Dia Kas Bk VI end and VII. * Ulama i Islama (all from MSS. in the Library of the University of Bombay) * Denkart Bk. VI end (pp. 585, line 17 to 590 in Madan's edition). Fragment from Denkart Bk. VII. Inserts: * scraps of papers with numbers referencing books and personal papers, miscellaneous calculations, word meanings; * "E.W. West's Transcript of the Pahlavi Denkard, Book VI" a note seemingly about an exhibition on West in "the [Royal Asiatic] Society" * torn financial documents from "The Machinery Trust Limited" used to note calculations and page numbers in Pahlavi Texts.

• Persian
• Pahlavi
• Avestan
• English