MANUSCRIPTS. 



937 



Dominici Dies, recitandis quibusq ; disserta- 

 tionibus destinati, in apicibus, notantur. Gra- 

 tinite in Annandia. Januarij 29 no die Anno 

 Domini 175$. 4 



HUGO, de Sancto Victare. De exercitatione te- 

 pide mentis in amorem Dei. Idem de obli- 

 vione prgeteritorum malorum et ira. Idem de 

 quinque statibus mutabilitatis. A manuscript 

 on vellum, of Cent. xiv. It is written in a 

 Gothic character, and contains eleven leaves. 

 The titles are in red, and the capitals are illu- 

 minated. 4 



ORATIONES. A manuscript on vellum, of the 

 14th Cent., written on 28 leaves, in a small 

 Gothic character. It consists of a collection 

 of prayers, nineteen in number, by Thomas 

 Aquinas, St Ambrose, St Augustine, St Je- 

 rome, and others. Towards the end of the 

 MS. there is a piece in Latin verse, by St 

 Bernard, entitled, Forma vivendi ; Verba Jo- 

 sephi Hebrsei de Christo ; et Epistola Pilati. 

 On the last page there is a prayer of St Au- 

 gustine, written at a later date. The titles are 



in red ; and the first initial is in gold and 



colours. 12 



[All the MSS. on vellum in the New College 



Library were formerly in the possession of 



the Duke of Sussex. They are fully described 



in Pettigrew's Bibliotheca Sussexiana, from 



which the account now given has been taken 



in a form abridged, and altered so as to suit 



the different editions of the printed works to 



which reference is made.] 



ROW (JOANNES), Professor of philosophy in the 

 university of Edinburgh. Physica sive tracta- 

 tus de corporibus. A doctissimo Domino 

 Joanne Row in Academia Edinburgena philo- 

 sophise professore dictata, conscripta autem a 

 Joanne Wright ejus sub ductu philosophise 

 operam navante, inchoataque mense Januario 

 anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo nonage- 

 simo sexto. [2 partt.] 4 



VITRINGA (CAMPEGIUS), Professor of divinity at 

 Franeker. Historia ecclesiastica. 4 



[An unpublished work of Vitringa, beautifully 

 written, and evidently prepared for the press.] 



ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS. 



ABULGHAZI BHATAR KHAN. Shejeret ' 

 Turki. The Tartar family-tree. The chro- 

 nicle or genealogical history of Abulghazi Bha- 

 tar Khan. 4 



ALCORANUS ARABICE. Alcoran. The first 

 two pages are gilt and illuminated ; and each 

 page is inclosed within a gold border. 8 



AMEER KHUSROO. The poems of Ameer 

 Khusroo, a native of Delhi. 8 



ANUARI, or ANUERI. Divan-i-Anuari. A 

 volume containing a collection of poems. 8 

 [Anuari, one of the most celebrated poets of 

 Persia, was born in a village called Bedeneh, 

 and for the excellence of his poetry \vas sur- 

 named Solthan al Khorasan. He died A.H. 

 597.] 



BHEEKUN PITHAMU. Rj Dharm, or rules 

 for the guidance of Princes. By Bheekun 

 Pithamu. Translated into Persian from the 

 Mahabhsirat. 8 



CHRONICLES, BOOKS OF. The First and Se- 

 cond Book of Chronicles. 4 

 [Used by the Karaites. Written in the Turk- 

 ish language, and in the Hebrew character. 

 Two MSS. are annexed, in the same language 

 and character.] 



DICTIONARY. Dictionary of Persian and Ara- 

 bic words, explained in Tartar, or Turkish. 



4 



FERAYIZ KETA'BL Ferayiz Ketdbi. Divine 

 precepts or laws in the Tartar dialect. The I 

 first part is wanting. Towards the end is a | 

 religious treatise ; also a Persian poem, and | 

 the story of Kuz and Fyka, in Tartar. 4 



GOSPELS. A version of the first three Gospels, 

 as far as the middle of St Luke, in the Bash- 

 kir dialect, by a Bashkir Mula or Mulla, from 

 the Turkish edition of the New Testament, 



printed in Paris in the year 1819. 



GRUNTH. The Grunth. [The term Grunth 

 corresponds with that of Shastres, or holy writ- 

 ings of the Hindoos. There are two Grunths, 

 one containing the writings of Nanuck 

 Shah, (who lived about 300 years ago) and 

 those of the succeeding Gooroos or spiritual 

 guides ; the other containing the writings of 

 Gooroo Govind Singh (who lived about 200 

 years ago), and his contemporary saints. This 

 volume is a copy of the first of these. It was 

 compiled by one of the Gooroos named Ur- 

 joon. It is styled the Grunth of Gooroo Na- 

 nuck Shah, and contains the sacred books of 

 the Sikhs who are his followers.] 4 



HAFEDH, or HAFEZ, or HAFIZ. Divan- i- 

 Hafedh. 8 



[The word Divan, in one of its significations, 

 is employed to express a collection of differ- 

 ent pieces by the same author, whether in 

 prose or verse. Of these Divans of Hafedh 

 (whose proper name was Mohammed Scham- 

 seddin) there are five in the New College 

 library. They are all in 8.] 

 HAJI HOSEIN-ZAHRI. A treatise on the 

 science of music, by Haji Hosein-Zahri, of 

 Ispahan. 4 J 



HASSAN BEN SOHAIL. Anu'ar Sohaili. The 

 lights, or stars of Canopus. 8 



[The title of a work very celebrated through- 

 out the East, which Hassan Ben Sohail, Vi- 

 zir of Khalife Almamon, translated from Per- 

 sian into Arabic. Such is the reason of its 

 name ; for Sohail in Arabic signifies the Star 

 of Canopus. The work was originally writ- 

 ten in Indian, and bore first the name of the 

 Testament of Houschenk, ancient king of 

 Persia of the first dynasty, and that of Gia- 

 vidan Khird, i. e., the wisdom of all ages. It 

 was first translated from the Indian language 



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