So ACCOUNTS, ETC , OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Of the Printed Books, 45G were bought; 721 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act, and 188 under the Colonial 

 Copyright Act ; 121 were presented. 



The MSS. are : 



Arabic ,33 



Armenian ---...- Q 



Bengali --____ i 



Central Asian ----- 8 



Chinese --__-_ i 



Coptic — ^Arabic - _ _ _ g 

 English (Papers relating to Central Asia) 1 



Ethiopic ----.= - 6 



Georgian ------ l 



Hebrew - - - - - - 16 



(besides 2 large and important collections of fragments) 



Hindustani ----- l 



Japanese ------ 2 



Oriya ------ l 



Pali ------- 3 



Persian ------ 21 



Sanskrit ------ 2 



Spanish (Poem in Hebrew character) 1 



Syriac ------ 4 



Telugu ---.-. 1 



Tibetan - - - - - - 35 



Turki ------ 9 



Turkish ------ 2 



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The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic 3ISS. — 1. Suwar al Kawakib : a description of the 

 Fixed Stars, with illuminations. By 'Abd al-Rahmfm al- 

 SCifT ; XlVth cent. 



2. Luz'm ma la yalzam : a collection of Arabic Poems by 

 Alu al-'Al al-Ma'arn. XII -Xlllth cent 



3. Al-MansurT fi al-iibb : a compendium of Medicine by 

 Abu Bakr al-RazT (Xth cent.) ; A.]>. 1592. 



4. Five leaves from a MS. containing the responses of 

 Maimonides in the original Arabic (Hebrew character). 



5. A volume of the la'rikh al Islam : or Moslem Chronicle 

 of alpahabl; XlVth cent. 



6. A volume of the Fath al-Bfiri of Ibn Hajar al-'AskalanT ; 

 a fine copy ; A.D. ] 502. 



7. An Arabic paraphrase of " Ma'aseh Torah," attributed 

 to K. Jehudah the Holy ; XVIth cent. 



8. Al-Mawahib al-ladunTyat : a biography of the Prophet 

 Muhammad ; 1G3S. 



