36 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Of the MSS., of which a classified list is appended, 27 were 

 bought and 20 were presented. 



Arabic - - . - - - - 2 



Armenian ------ 15 



Burmese ------ 7 



Chinese --____ 2 



Coptic - 3 



Hebrew ------ 1 



Hindi ------ 1 



Malay ------ 1 



Malayalam - - - - _ 1 



Oriya - - - - - - 2 



Panjabi ------ 1 



Persian ------ 2 



Sanskrit ------ 1 



Shan - - - _ _ 2 



Tamil and Telugu - - - - . 2 



Indian Drawings - _ _ _ 4 



The most important acquisitions for the year are as 

 follows : — 



I. A very handsomely illustrated Burmese MS. containing 

 39 Jatakas. This MS. contains 81 double-folio-sized coloured 

 illustrations, which derive a special interest from the vivid 

 manner in which they depict the dress and manners of the 

 people. Taken from the Library of King Thebaw. 19th 

 century (?). 



II. A Burmese MS., being the collected writings of Kinwun 

 Mingyi, who was Prime Minister to King Thebaw until the 

 deposition of that sovereign in 1885. 1889 (?). 



III. A Pali work in Burmese character. Commentaries 

 on five of the seven books of the Abhidhammapitaka, the 

 last of the three divisions of the Canonical Scriptures of 

 Southern Buddhism. Of these commentaries one at least is 

 by the great commentator Buddhaghosa. All are very scarce in 

 Europe, several are probably not to be found in any public 

 library either in Europe or the East. 1783. 



IV. Two Taung Thu Shan MSS., one being a translation of 

 the Nirvana Sutra. Only a few MSS. in this dialect have 

 as yet reached this country. These are probably of the 18th 

 century. 



V. The Siva purana. A Sanskrit MS. One of the 18 

 "great" puranas which form a later section of the Hindu 

 Sacred Books. This work appears to be rare even in India. 

 No complete edition has been published. 18th century (?). 



VI. The Life of H.R.H. the Prince Consort, translated into 

 Sanskrit from the work of Sir Theodore Martin. 1890 (?). 



7. A letter 



