382 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1912. 
had obtained copies from Bettiah and Patria.! This Dictionary 
was no other but the lexicon containing thirty-three thousand 
on 
Capadhin Fathers at Nekpal in Tibet exists a Tibetan Dic- 
tionary of 33,000 words. 
In January 1911, the attention of scholars was drawn to the 
original MS. in. Bishop’s ee: oa where on the 18th 
of March 1912, I went to inspec The Rev. Mr. Gee was 
kg ase to place before me om xamination some other 
an MS. Dictionaries, of which I submit here a description. 
the last-but-two letter of the Tibetan alphabet. Several holes. 
have been eaten through the paper by insects. It is probable 
that the dictionary was in its present condition when handed 
over to Bishop’s College. Mrs. Latter wrote of the diction- 
aries in 1824: ‘‘These are papal damaged by insects, 
but sufficient remains to form a very complete dictionary.’’ 
This MS. is one foot long by 6} inches broad. It contains 
191 leaves or 382 pages, each of about 38 lines. The pages are 
not numbered, nor are they divided into columns. Each line 
starts with the Tibetan word in the Tibetan character called 
\T 8% Uchhen (capitals or major letters), in opposition to the 
4243 Umin, non-capital or minor letters. This latter form of 
left unfinished, and unrevised. Though richer in words than 
later dictionaries, the work cannot for these reasons be accepted 
as an authority on any doubtful Pent. 

a 1 Probably a mistake for Patna in R: ‘Jeftrey’ s letter. Cf. Appen- 
i 
. 2 ANT. ap ne Alphabetum Tibetanum, p. lviii, (Praefatio): 
Lexicon Tibetanum triginta trium millium vocgbulorum jacet MSS. 
in Hospitie A og Ca uccinorum Neckpal. agno rebus nostris fuisset 
usui i sed tam longe abest, ut de eo edendo vix bs una arent 
’ Hervas, Catalogo delle lingue, Cesena, 1785, 4°, p- 147: * Nell’ 
ospicio de’ P. P. Cappuccini,di Nekpal nel Tibet, e’é un dizionario Tibe- 
tano MS. il quale contiene trantatre mila parole. 
