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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The MSS. are as follows: — 



Arabic 



?5 



Armenian 



I 



Chinese ... 



2C 



Coptic ... ... .... 



1 



Hebievv ... 



3 



Hindustani 



i 



Manchu and Chinese . . . 



1 



Persian ... 



3 



Sanskrit 



3 



Sanskrit and Khotanese 



3 



Sjriac 



2 



Syriac and Arabic 



1 



Tibetan 



3 



Total 



... 73 



The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. A fragment on vellum containing an Arabic 

 version (apparently unknown) of the Epistles from Ephesians ii., 

 10, to II. Timothy ii., 12, in a fine early hand, perhaps of the 

 9th century. 12°. 



2. A MS. containing a detailed criticism of Islam, apparently 

 from the Jewish standpoint; incomplete at the beginning and 

 end. 11th or 12th century. 8°. Apparently unique. 



3. A letter in Jewish- Arabic 

 Samuel to Abu Ishak Ibrahim. . 



from Semah 

 ..D. 1151. 



Hakk5hen ben 



4. Ijtima'at al-falasifah fi buyut il-hikmab, sayings of the 

 Greek philosophers, by Hnnain b. Ishak. Nearly the first quarter 

 of the work, two quires being lost at the beginning. 12th 

 century. 12°. Only one other copy is on record. 



5. A Jewish- Arabic commentary by Sa'adyah Gaon on the 

 two Songs of Moses. Followed by translations of parts of the 

 Jewish liturgy. 12th century. 12°. Apparently otherwise un- 

 known. 



.6. A MS. containing four grammatical works, viz., al-Anbari's 

 Mizan al-'arabiyah and Asrar al-'arabiyah, al-Jurjani's al-Jumal, 

 and al-Murtajal, a commentary on the last by ' Abd Allah b. 

 Ahmad al-Khassab. "With an ijdzah in tke handwriting of 

 Ahmnd b. 'All b. Ahmad al-Kiifi, called Ibn al-FasIh. Copied 

 A.H. 661 (a.d. 1263).' 8^ 



7. A letter in Jewish-Arabic to Ibn al-Rabi' Sulaiman 

 Hakkohen b. Abi Zakarlya. 13th century? 



8. Al-Ilisalat al-mukni'ah, a work on the recitation of the 

 hismillah formula at prayers, by Abu '1-Fath Salim b. Aiyub 

 al-Razi; transmitted by the author's disciple Abu '1-Fath Nasr 

 b. Ibrahim al-Makdisi, and collated with a MS. corrected from 

 the author's holograph. Copied a.h. 737 (a.d. 1836-37). 12«>. 

 No other copy seems to be recorded. 



9. .Part 2 of al-Ihatah fi akhbar il-Ghirnatah, a biographical 

 dictionarv of famous men of Granada, by Lisan al-Dm Ibn al- 

 Khntib. 'Copied a.h. 780 (a.d. 1378)? 4°. An important 

 work: MSS. are rare. 



