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YII. A letter of Tipu Sahib, Sultan of Mysore, to Marechal 

 de Castries on the subject of the defence of Pondicherry 

 against the English. Dated June 1887. 



VIII. The Book of Joshua in Judeo-Gerrnan Rhyme. This 

 is one of the earliest Hebrew books printed in Poland, and is 

 not mentioned in any bibliography. Additional interest 

 attaches to it from the German dialect in which it is compiled. 

 Cracow, 1594. 



IX. An Arabic MS., containing the Life and Homilies of 

 St. Ephrem. 15th century (?). 



X. A very handsome Arabic MS., entitled Sharh Mishkat 

 al MasabTh, being a commentary upon a collection of tradi- 

 tions. Folio size. I7th century (?). 



XL An Armenian MS., containing a Life of Alexander the 

 Great. The work, of which this is a 16th century copy, is 

 attributed to Kachadur of the 13th century, and is very 

 rare. 



XII. A valuable collection of 42 Armenian works, presented 

 by Sir Francis Norman, k.c.b., to whom they were given by 

 an Armenian at Cabul. The majority of these works were 

 printed at Amsterdam, Venice, Calcutta, and Madras. Those 

 printed at the two last-named places are very rare,, some of 

 them being quite unknown to bibliographers. 



Among the most valuable works may be mentioned parts of 

 the first three editions — -1643, 1660 — -of the very celebrated 

 poem on the Life of Christ, by Nerses, who lived during the 

 12th century ; an early edition of the History of Nadir Shah, 

 by Abraham of Crete, dated Calcutta, 1796 ; the Refutation 

 of the Heresies of Eznak of Julfa, printed in Smyrna in 1762 ; 

 together with portions of several early editions of valuable 

 patristic and liturgical works. 



XIII. A manuscript Armenian Grammar by Simeon of 

 Julfa. 1720. 



XIV. An Armenian MS., containing a Treatise on Logic, by 

 Simeon of Julfa. 18th century. 



XV. " SchulderfUllung." An Armenian work by Simeon 

 Katholikos. Printed in the peculiarly fine type used at 

 Echmiadzin. 1779. 



XVI. Hymns of the Armenian Church. A modern work, 

 but of some interest and rarity from the fact that the hymns 

 are set to music in the national and traditional method, 

 Echmiadzin, 1875. 



The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted by Readers 

 from April 1 to the end of the year was 3,003, and the number 

 of Oriental MSS. consulted during the same period was 1,001. 



Robert K. Douglas. 



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