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9. LamTyat al-'ajam : a poem, with a commentary. Two 

 volumes; 1392. 8". A fine copy. 



10. Minhaj al-tajrjTli wa'1-tajrTh : a collection of letters 

 by N'arious authors ; 1G04. 



11. The Kamiis : or Arabic Lexicon by al-FFruz'tbadl. A 

 very fine MS. ; XVth— XVIth cent. 



12. Fragments of Arabic Commentaries (either in Hebrew 

 or Arabic writing) on the Pentateuch and other Biblical 

 Books ; Xlth— XI Vth cent. 



Armenian 3ISS. — 1. The Four Gospels. V/ith sixteen full 

 page miniatures at the beginning ; illuminated borders to the 

 Canon-tables ; a full page miniature and an illuminated 

 frontispiece to each Gospel ; and illuminated letters, with 

 marginal ornaments throughout ; XVth — ^XVIth cent. Vel- 

 lum. 



2. Extracts from Armenian Historians ; 161G. 



3. The Chronicle of Sembat ; XlVth cent. 



Chinese MS. An Edict issued by the Emperor K'anghsi 

 in the year 1723. In Chinese and Manchu. 



Chinese Books. — 1. An illustrated life of Christ. By the 

 Jesuit Julio Aleni. Canton ? 1637. 8^ One of the earliest 

 Christian works printed in China. 



2. Innocentia Victrix. By the Jesuit A. de Gouvea. Can- 

 ton, 1671. 8". A cop}'-, of this work, though different in 

 some respects from the present copy, stands in the Grenville 

 Library, and contains the following MS. note : — " Of this very 

 rare book, perhaps the earliest printed at Canton, only two 

 ether copies appear to be known, one in the Imperial 

 Library in Vienna, the other in the Messner Catalogue." 



3. Chiu T'ang shu. The older History of the T'ang 

 Dynasty (a.d. 618-907). Forty vols. 1872. 8°. An his- 

 torical work of great importance. 



Co2)tic MSS. — 1. Five fragments on parchment containing 

 Homilies, and lives of Saints ; Xlth — XlVth cent. 



2. A letter of Orders. Coptic and Arabic ; 1363. 



8. Part of a Grseco-Coptic Liturgy ; Xllth — Xlllth cent. 



4. A Fragment of a MS. 1048. 



Hehreiu MSS. — 1. Letters of Leo di Modena, partly auto- 

 graphic ; XVIIth cent. 



2. A volume of liturgical poetry as used in the East, 

 muQh of it being unknown ; XVIth — XVIIth cent. 



