39. Remarks on the Tibetan Manuscript Vocabularies 
in Bishop’s College, Calcutta. 
By the Rev. Faruer Feix, 0.(. 
The first publication of a Lexicon and a Grammar of the 
Tibetan language, printed at Serampore in 1826, was an event 
which made an epoch in the study of Asiatic literature. 
The notions possessed at that time in Europe of this im- 
portant language date back to the beginning of the eighteenth 
century, when a Tibeto-Mongol library was discovered in the 
ruins of the Buddhist convent of Ablaiinkit, on the left bank 
of the Irtish.! 
of , Francisco Orazio della Penna, well known for his 
accurate description of Tibet, and Cassiano di Macerata sent 
Cy) aterials which were utilized by the Augustinian Friar, 
Aug. Ant. Georgi of ini, in his Alphabetum Tibetanum 

1 A.Grorai, Alph. Tibet., pp. 570, 663, sqq.- 
2M. M. P. : teres sacrés de toutes les reli- 
own to us. e must come down 
to Father Domenico da Fano, of whom the Bibliothéque Nationale pos- 
sesses a Latin-Tibetan vocabulary (cf. Recherches sur les langues tartares 
A 4 
e8 umes d’ Histoire et de Littérature Orientales, par 
bel Rémusat, Paris, MDCCCXLIII, and Nouv. Journ. Asiat,, 2e série, 
vol. 1, 1828, p. 401. 
