DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 33 



Of the Printed Books, 582 were bought ; 925 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act and 114 under the Colonial 

 Copyright Act ; 147 were presented. 



The MSS. are : 













Arabic 



- 



- 



- 



- 



25 



Armenian - 



- 



- 



- 



- 



10 



Batak 



- 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Coptic 



„ and Arabic 



- 



- 



- 



6 

 5 



Ethiopic - 

 Gujarati - 

 Hebrew - 



- 



- 



- 



- 



2 

 1 

 1 



Hindi 



- 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Hindustani 



- 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Javanese - 



- 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Laos 



- 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Manchu 



- 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Pali in Cambodian character 



- 



- 



1 



„ Sinhalese character 



- 



- 



2 



Persian 



- 



- 



- 



- 



10 



Prakrit - 



- 



- 



- 



- 



67 



Sanskrit - 



_ 



_ 



- 



- 



78 



Sanskrit and Sinhalese 



- 



- 



2 



Shan 



- 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Sinhalese - 



- 



- 



- 



- 



6 



Syriac 

 Turkish - 



: 



: : 



- 



- 



2 

 6 



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The most important acquisitions are : — • 



Arabic MSS. — 1. Kitab al-adwiyat al-Kalblyat : a treatise 

 on medicine by Ibn STna, very finely written ; A.D. 1352. 8°. 



2. Al-Kashshaf : a commentary on the Koran, by al- 

 ZamakhsharT (Xllth cent.), very finely written and illumi— 

 nated ; a.d, 1482. 8°. 



3. Tadkirat al-KahhalTn: a treatise on the Diseases of the 

 Eye, by 'AH ibn 'Isa al-Kahh"il ; a.d. 1491. 8°.] 



4. The Forty sayings of Muhammad, with a paraphrase in 

 Persian verse by Jam! (XVth cent.) ; every page richly 

 illuminated ; XVIth cent. 8°. 



5. A collection of forty traditions, bearing on the re- 

 spect and consideration due to Muhammadans ; written for 

 the Mamluk Ak-Bulat, by order of his master, the Egyptian 

 Sultan Abu al-Nasr Kanisauh al-Ghfirl ; XVIth cent. 8°. 



6. Three pieces dedicated to Sultan Sulaiman I. (reigned 

 A.D. 1520-1567), namely : 1. A panegyric on the Sultan ; 



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