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In Hyderabad, the libraries of Sir Salar Jung, and of the Afsar® 
‘-Apibba? Mubib Husayn were found to be of special interest, 
mongst many rare and valuable manuscripts in the library 
of the latter, a Persian translation was discovered of the Kitab»- 
‘l-Hasha*ish wa'n-Nabatat,' the Arabic translation of Dioscorides’ 
work in Greek (a work on the Materia Medica); this had good 
coloured figures of medicinal herbs: probably, too, the later Arabic 
re-translation from the Persian was based upon this very manu- 
script. Shams* 'l-‘Ulama* Nawab ‘Aziz Jang Bahadur, of Hydera- 
bad, after consultation with Maulavi Hidayat Husayn, generously 
presented to the Society, with the sanction of the Government of 
India, 502 Arabic and Persian MSS. and printed works, which had 
ve ormed part of his library; subsequently 100 additional volumes 
so made over by him to the Library of the Board of 
Mestaitiees, Calcutta. wig he year, various manuscripts were 
offered for sale from Agra, Delhi, Lahore, Ajmere, and H 
An Arab traveller ies ‘sent, for inspection, 102 manuscripts, 
among which were the sete ing :— 
in A "ees i 1021), and the Anwar* ’I- Quran ts ‘Ali ibn 
Sultan Muhammad al- Qari al- Harawi (who died in A.H. 1014, A.D. 
ese are of spec vial interest. Up to the present, homever, 
year is 150. This includes almost every branch of Arabic litera- 
ture. In date, the manuscripts range from 900 A.H. to 1100 
A.H, ‘The following deserve notice :— 
(1) The hapa het ap al-Jami‘ li anwa‘é ‘Adab, a 
trea n literature that was written by order of 
— 'd Dawlah (ruled AH. 333-356; A.D. 944-967). . 
S. is dated 1051 A 
This abri t is conside be an eatho- 
ritative treatise on Shafii jurisprudence and an} 
Shafi scholars such as Muham Abi Sharif 
The manuscript was transcribed some time apts the 
death of the anthor, and is dated A.H. 869. 

the 
1 This work was pap tie gs rene nc 
— into Persia The original Arabic translation a lost, and the work 
8 re-translated in sehen te ben the Persian translatio 
