xliv Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [ April, 
The Series Meee in connection with this year’s collection 
are worthy of m 
(1) Out af fie total number of books purchased we 
have some eighty MSS. which are unique. Man 
which are not even mentioned in European catalogues, 
(2) In ates one hundred cases the dates range from .H, 635 
(3) There are re ete autograph th — ee 
‘Abdul K afi as Subki, 
1355; Sibir Usman al Khalili, Cc. A.H. 751, a 
13 Abd-ur-Ra’af al Munawi, d. a.n. 1031, A.D. 1621. 
(4) About hal a dozen of our MSS. bear upon them some 
ines from the pen of such eminent scholars as Yusuf 
: Abdur Rahman b. Yusuf al ae = A.H. 742, A.D. 
1341 Ahmad b. ‘Ali ‘ Asqalani, d. 852, A.D. 
Ahmad b. Muhammad al @amaléni, d. aH. 923, 
ee 517. ae 
(5) ere there are about half a dozen MSS. which bear the 
original corrections and marginal notes of the authors 
Wenibstved 
Among the most interesting additions to our collection are 
the following :— 
(1) Al Katibat-al-Kéminah by Muhammad b. ‘ Abd-ul-Lah 
: Tae Din ibn ul-Khatib, the Spanish vezir, d. A.H. 
713, 313. It is an unique copy in Maghribi 
hand pe contains the bio aphical notices of al the 
Moorish poets of the 8th Century Hijri 
(2) The pong draft of the valuable work Tntitled Kharidat 
ul-Qasr by Katib al Isfahani, d. an. 597, a.p. 1201; 
dealing with the biographical accounts of the poets 0 of 
Press 8 Sham, Misr, Jazira and Maghrib who flourished 
to AH. 5 
AH. 
(3) Tabfat-oi-Ashraf by "Yisut b. Abdur-Rabman b. Yusuf 
Mizzi, d. au. 742, av, 1341. This book enu- 
traditio 
(4) An unique athograph copy of al-Ikhtisér wat-Tajrid by 
Muhammad b. ‘Usman b. ‘Umar oat no ara A.H. 
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