DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 33 



Of the Printed Books, 392 were bought ; 917 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act and 114 under the Colonial 

 Copyright Act; and 112 were presented. 



The MSS. are : 



Arabic ------ 13 



Armenian ------ 1 



Bengali ------ 1 



Burmese ------ 1 



Coptic ______ 1 



Hebrew (three being Hebrew-Arabic) 11 



Malayalam _ - - - _ l 



Pali in Burmese character - - 10 



„ Sinhalese character - - 4 



Panjabi ------ 1 



Persian ------ 5 



Samaritan _ - _ _ - 7 



Sanskrit 1 



Sinhalese ------ 10 



Syriac ------ 2 



Tamil 4 



Turkish ------ 1 



A non-Aryan dialect not determined L 



75. 



The most important acquisitions arc : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. The Canons of the Councils, preceded by 

 the Apostolic Constitutions, and followed by a body of 

 Canons addressed by Eustathius to Epiphanius, Patriarch of 

 Constantinople ; A.D. 994. 



2. The Protevangelium of James, followed by Homilies and 

 Lives of the Saints; A.D. 1172. 4". 



3. DTwanal-adab : an Arabic Lexicon, by Ishak ibn Ibrahim 

 al-rarabi ; A.D. 1470. Fol. 



4. Al-Kanun fil-tibb : a system of Medicine, by Ibn Sma ; 

 A.D. 1659. Fol. 



0. Siraj al-mulilk : a treatise on politics, by Muhammad 

 al-Turtushi ; XVIIth cent. 4°. 



6. The Psalms, followed by the Biblical Canticles, Arabic 

 and Greek ; XVIIth and XVlIIth cent. Large 4°. 



7. A large portion of Yefeth's Arabic Commentary on 

 Ezekiel, in the Hebrew character; A.D. 1459. 8°. 



8. Samuel el-Maghrebi's " Book of Commandments," in the 

 original Arabic, in the Hebrew character; A.D. 1510. 8". 



Coptic MSS. — 1. A collection of coptic fragments, con- 

 sisting mainly of Biblical and Patristic Texts. Among the 

 0.125c C former 



