Descriptive Notes on Libraries. cevii 
It appears from the statement! of Hakim Mohawmnad 
Ajmal Khan, Superintendent of the library, that in a.w. 1315 = 
A.D. 1891, the number of the entire collection, printed works 
and MSS., was 11,000, as follows :— 
Avabio 5,194 
Persian p.304 
rda 2,392 
Turki 46 
Pushto o a es 37 
Bhasha i Ps mA 16 
Sanskirit .. hg 4 3 
agri a i fs t 
Panjabi... - BP 8 
11,000 
Iam informed there are 3,392 Persian MSS. on the subjects 
detailed below 
i Rieisgy ( ¢9u ) es 52 
2. Astronomy ( “i.e ) .° 68 
3. Biographies of Traditionists (Sls) aay 
4 ,, Poets (styas} 3,583) 594 
$5 ,, Sufis and (449 _a)} wlaab) 
a on Sufism are ?) 
! ‘hihi M 8S. 
ne. (1) ee 
Qaniin Mas‘ on by Abi — Md. B. Ahmad al-Birdini (d. 4.5. 
40 = a.p. 1048), dated a.m. 1035 = A.D. : os 
(For Birini see Tar ih al-Hukama’ of Qifti, p. 97, and ‘Uytn al-Anba’, 
II, p 
Turki MSS. 
3 (2) a 
A Turki Poem written by the Emperor Babar (4.. 899—937 =4-D- 
1493-1530) 
Persian MSS, 
pigs 3) 
Torikh-i-Babari of Shaykh Zaye Khwafi. 
‘ (4) 
History of Akbar of Haji Md. ‘Arif Qandhari. 
: (5 
Tafhim al-Tanjim, by al-Birdini (see Br. Mus. Pere. Cat., p- 451). 
( 
Tarikh-é-Gucidah, by Hlamd-Allh i composed 4.H. UL lacing ‘ 
1329, dated a.u 843 = 439. 
‘; 
Narilet Akbar’, dated a.H. 00 c a.p. 1631. For fuller details see 
1901, pp. 75-77. 
by H wee for faa siehaes of we Arabic Cat., Rampore Library, prek 
m Md. Ajmal Khan, p. 3 
