2t. A Manuscript Koran in Classical Armenian. 
By Mesrovs J. Sets, M.R.A.S,. 
Some ten years ago the non-Armenian widow of a former 
Armenian teacher in the local Armenian College told me that 
she had found amongst her late husband’s Armenian books, 
a Manuscript Koran in the Armenian language and that she 
had sold it to Her Highness the Begum of Bhopal for the sum 
of five hundred rupees. 
Vhen I heard this it was too late to try and rescue the 
valuable manuscript for the nation as it had been sold and paid 
for already, and after many vicissitudes found a last resting 
place in the Bhopal State Library amongst the many valuable 
illuminated Korans that adorn that Library. 
In February 1922, my friend, Father H. Hosten, S.J., the 
enthusiastic antiquarian, paid a visit to Bhopal to complete 
uis researches into the family history of the Indian branch 
of the Bourbons who flourished at Bhopal and Marwar during 
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and played an import- 
ant part at the Courts of the mighty Moguls from the great 
Akbar downwards. 
__ Before leaving Bhopa!, the learned Father, at my request, 
paid a visit to the State Library where he was shown, amongst 
other works, the Armenian Manuscript Koran, which was 
described to him as a Yunani (Greek) Koran He drew the 
attention of the Librarian—a Bengali Protestant Christian—to 
the mistake and told him that it was not a Greek but an 
Armenian Koran and that if he would take the trouble to send 
it down to me, I would be able to write a note about it as 
age. But my troubles began when to my great disappointment 
! found that the title page was missing, as it would have given 
of my researches and, for about a year. I consulted every 
iographical—for 
was about 
to return the Manuscript to Bhopal when suddenly the sun 
Shone on my endeavours for I found in a very rare Armenian 
