DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 35 



Ethiopic MS. — An extensive work on the Ecclesiastical 

 Calendar ; XVIIth cent. Probably from the Magdala 

 Library. 



Hebrew MS. — Debash Vechalav : Novellae on Talmudical 

 Tractates, by David ben Shoshan ; XVIIth cent. 



Hehreiu Books — 1. A Spanish translation of the daily 

 Prayers in use among the Spanish-Jewish Congregation at 

 Amsterdam. Amsterdam ; 1695. 8°. In tortoiseshell binding. 



2. Readings for the eve of Hosa* nah Rabbah, the last day 

 of the Feast of Tabernacles. Amsterdam ; 1733. 8°. 



Korean MS. — A coloured Map of Korea in 21 Parts, 

 arranged according to the political divisions of the country ; 

 XlXth cent. 8°. 



^ Pali MSS. — The Padatthayojana : an explanation by 

 Nanakitti of the Samantapasadika, the celebrated commentary 

 by Buddhaghosa on the Vinaya, or Disciplinary Section of 

 the Buddhist Canon ; written in the Cambodian character ; 

 XlXth cent. A handsome MS. enclosed within boards inlaid 

 with Mother of Pearl. 



2. The PapancasudanT : a Pali commentary of the Vth cent, 

 by Buddhaghosa on the Majjhima-nikaya ; XlXth ceiit. 



Persian MSS. — 1. The Baharistan, or Garden of Spring, 

 of JamT, very finely written, in a graceful nastalik hand, 

 with illuminated title pages and gold-ruled borders ; 

 A.D. 1494. 8°. 



2. The Gulistan, or Rose Garden of Sa'dl, finely written 

 and containing thirteen full-page miniatures by Persian and 

 Indian Artists ; A.D. 1567. fol. 



3. The Ramayana, translated into Persian ; a fuller version 

 than those in the Museum ; XlXth cent. 



Persian Book. — TakwTm al-dm : a work on the Jehad, or 

 Holy War, commonly known as the " Amir's Book." 

 1888. 8°. 



Sanskrit MSS. — 1. Sarvasiddhanta ; a Sanskrit work on 

 the Zodiac and Astrology, written at Benares, and handsomely 

 illuminated ; early XlXth cent. 



2. A collection of 144 Indian MSS. purchased from Dr. 

 Jacobi, of Bonn, of which the following are the most 

 important : — 



1. Smrityarthasara : a Sanskrit work on Religious Obser- 



vances, by Sridhara ; A.D. 1419. 



2. Considerable fragments, believed to be unique, of a 



treatise on Sanskrit verbal roots composed in A.D. 1623 

 by Sadhusundara, a Jain monk ; a.d. 1690. 



3. Kriyaratna-Samuccaya : On the same subject as the 



above, composed in A.D. 1410, by the Jain monk 

 Devasundara; XVIIth— XVIIIth cent. The only 

 known copy in Europe. 



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