Glossaries and other fragments

Scope and Content

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 eclipes"
  • "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