36 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Of the MSS., of which a classified list 



; is 



appen 



ded, 153 were 



bought and 4 were presented. 









Arabic - - - _ 



_ 



_ 



14 



Armenian - - - _ 



_ 



- 



1 



Cambodian _ _ _ 



. 



_ 



1 



Chinese _ - - _ 



_ 



_ 



1 



Coptic - - _ - 

 Ethiopic - - - - 

 Hebrew - - - _ 



- 



~ 



39 

 5 



7' 



Hindi - - - - 



- 



- 



1 



Pali in Burmese character 



- 



- 



6 



,, Cambodian character 



- 



- 



% 



,, Roman character - 



- 



- 



1 



,, Sinhalese character 



- 



- 



7 



Persian _ _ - - 



- 



- 



23 



Sanskrit - - - - 



- 



- 



2- 



Shan _ _ - _ 



_ 



- 



1 



Sinhalese - - - - 



- 



_ 



42 



Syriac _ _ _ _ 

 Tamil . . _ . 



- 



- 



1 

 3 



157 



The most important acquisitions for the year are a» 

 follows : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. A MS. on vellum, containing two 

 treatises on Christian theology, the first being a systematic 

 work in 25 chapters, without author's name ; the second a 

 special treatise on the cult of images of Christ and the Saints^ 

 by Theodoros Abu Kurrah, Bishop of Harran. Dated A.H, 

 2G4 (a.d. 877). 4°. 



2. The Canon of Avicenna ; written apparently in th& 

 13th century. This copy was used by Kutb al-Dln al-ShlrazT. 

 a well-known commentator on the Canon. Fol. 



3. The 25th Section of the Koran, in fine large gold letters, 

 with illuminated frontispiece ; written for the Mongol Sultan 

 Uljrdtu, at Mosul, in A.H. 710 (a.d. 1310). Fol. 



4. Nazm al-Suluk, a dictionary of simple medicaments, by 

 Hubaish ibn Ibrahim al-TiflisT. A.H. 1015 (a.d. 160G). Fol. 



5. Kanun al-Adab, an Arabic -Persian dictionary, by 

 Hubaish al-TifllsT. a.h. 893 (a.d. 1487). Fol. 



Arabic Books. — 1. A collection of eleven works lithographed 

 in Morocco. The most important amongst them are : — 

 (1.) The Koran. Fez, A.H. 1309 (a.d. 1892). 8°. 

 (2.) The Commentary of Saiyid Mahdi al-Wazzanl upon 

 the Tuhfat of Ibn 'Asim, the chief manual of law 

 studied in Morocco. 3 vol. Fez, a.h. 1310 

 (A.D. 1893). 



(3.) Jadwat 



