34 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



2. Jami' al-aslain, in praise of Winter and Spring ; and 



3. Rashh al-bal fi sharh al-hal, a moral masnavi in Persian ; 

 XVIth cent. 8°. ' " 



7. Kitab al-tabTkh : a treatise on Cookery, by Muhammad 

 ibn al-Hasan al-Katib al-Baghdadi ; XVIth cent. 8°.* 



8. Kitab masalik al-mamalik : the Geography of Abu 

 Ishak al-Istakhri (Xth cent.) ; illustrated with 21 original 

 maps; copied apparently from a MS. dated A.D. 1477. Sm. 

 fol. 



9. Transcripts of thirteen works by the Bab and his 

 followers, relating to the dissenting Doctrines held by them, 

 and on account of which they have suffered fierce perse- 

 cution at the hands of the orthodox Muhammadans ; XlXth 

 cent. 8^. 



Armenian MSS. — 1. The Gospels, followed by the Apo- 

 calypse ; very finely written and adorned with miniatures of 

 very excellent workmanship ; Xlllth cent. 4°. 



2. Sharakan, or Hymn book of the Armenian Church' 

 with illuminations ; XVth cent. 12°. 



3. A History of the Albanians of the Caucasus, by Moses 

 Kalankaitouatsi (Xth cent.), XVth cent. 8°. 



4. Two Tales : 1. The History of the City of Copper, from 

 the Turkish ; 2. The History of Josaphat and Barlaam ; 

 A.D. 1605. 8*. 



5. The Chronicles of Kirakos of Gantzak (Xlllth cent.), 

 Matthew of Edessa (Xllth cent.), and Thomas of Metzoph 

 (XVth cent.); A.D. 1660. 4°. 



Batak MS. — A Batak text engraved on Bamboo. 



Chinese Books. — 1. The Hwang Ch'ao king she wan suh 

 peen, commonly known as the " Blue Book of China," con- 

 taining the views of the highest officials of the Empire on 

 domestic and foreign politics. Thirty-two volumes. 1888. 8°. 



2. Several large and interesting bilingual and trilingual 

 vocabularies of the languages of Mongolia, Tibet, Korea and 

 Manchuria ; XlXth cent. fol. 



Coptic MSS. — 1. A Lectionary of the Holy Week and 

 Easter, in Bohairic and Arabic ; XlVth cent. 



2. A Theotokia, in Bohairic and Arabic ; XVIIth cent. 



3. Doxologies for certain Religious Festivals, in Bohairic 

 and Arabic ; XVIIth cent. 



4. Biblical Texts, especially a page from the Ahmimic 

 version of the Epistles of Jude and James, the only New 

 Testament text in this dialect known ; 



