xl Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ April, 
I. THE RAMPUR LIBRARY. 
In connection with the first item, I this year paid a visit to 
the Rampur Library which is one of the finest libraries in this 
country and one of which India may well be prond. e col- 
lection owes its inception to the learned Nawwab Muhammad Fad- 
ul-Lah of Rampur, but the greater part was bought together in 
the time of the late Nawwab Kalb ‘Ali Khan, who was a great 
patron of learning, He also removed the books from the Tosha- 
thousand rupees. ere are in all 8,494 volumes of Arabic and 
Persian works in manuscript, print or lithograph, of which about 
5,000 belong to the first category. 
Out of this number upwards of three hundred represent very 
scarce works ; 347 are distinguished for their beautiful penman- 
ship, and no less than forty are authors’ autographs. The oldes 
gues ; 
work Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur, p. 386, gives the 
names of some nine books written by this author, but he does oe 
“ce 
u 
é ace, where they are now secretly hidden, and throw 
. them into the river. But if I do not press your hand then take 
“it for Paneer that my productions have been approved by the 
, pagate them. 
It so flappeised that the hand of the ‘Allamah remained steady 
to his last breath and, consequently, his friend did all he could for 
ks. 
other very interesting work—of which no other copy 
appears to exist—is at-Taisir fi ‘Ilm-it-Tafsir by Abu’l Qasim 
_Abd-ul-Karim b, Hawizin Al Qughairi, who died in a.n. 465. Tt 
is dated a.n. 679. : 
I give below a list of some of the oldest-dated MSS. belonging 
to this library, 
Book, Author, Date oftran- Remark. 
scription. ’ 
(1) Gharib- ‘Ali b. ‘Omar ad AH. No copy 
ul-Enghat. Daraqutni 566. Europe. 
d. 385-995. 
(2) -Amsélus Sa’irah Abi Ubaid A.H. Common. 
al Qasim b. Salam 574. 
d. 223-837, 
