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12. Eleven volumes of the STrat al-Malik al-Zahir Baibars, 

 or Romance of Sultan Baibars, a work of the same class. 

 (Nos. 9-12 belonged to the collection of the well-known 

 Arabic Scholar, Edward Wm. Lane). 



13. Thirty homilies of S. Jacob, Bishop of Serug, translated 

 into Arabic from the original homilies in Syriac verse. 



14. A homily on the building of the Church of S. Victor 

 in Ansina, Upper Egypt, and on the miracles performed by 

 the Saint after his death ; I7th century. 



15. A life of the same Saint, imperfect ; 17th century. 



Arabic Books. — 1. The Latin version of the Theorica and 

 Practica of the Arab physician Alsaharavius (al-Zahrawi). 

 Augustse Vindelicorum, 1519. Fol. 



2. The History of Morocco, by Ibn Abi Zar. Arabic. 

 Lithographed at Fez in 1888. 8^. (The first book obtained 

 by the Museum from Morocco.) 



3. The Dictionary of Natural History of DamTrT. Arabic. 

 With drawings illustrating the subjects. Lithographed in 

 Persia in 1868. Fol. 



Arrtienian Book. — A series of Photographs representing 

 Armenian National Antiquities and Historic Sites, with de- 

 scriptive letterpress. Echmiadzin, 1892. Obi. 4°. 



Chinese Book. — A very curious coloured illustrated Chinese 

 work representing events in the Life of Sakyamuni Tatha- 

 gata; with Text. 1808. 4°. 



Coptic MSS. — 1. An important collection of Coptic MSS., 

 containing many fragments of value, among which are 

 Portions of the Psalms ; several chapters of Isaiah and Hosea 

 — these are especially remarkable ; part of a very ancient 

 MS. of the Pauline Epistles ; and various fragments of the 

 Gospels in both Sahidic and Middle Egyptian dialects. Further 

 portions of the Sahidic life of S. Pachomius ; Liturgical 

 fragments in both dialects, fragments with Gnostic formulae ; 

 and lastly, a large number of valuable letters, lists and 

 accounts. 



2. An important palimpsest MS. bearing first, part of St. 

 John's Gospel, in Middle Egyptian, with the Greek Text in 

 parallel columns ; then upon this apparently some sort of 

 agricultural tables or calendar, with illustrations. 



Corean MS. — An original Corean Examination Paper, 

 written in Chinese, remarkable for the beauty of the calli- 

 graphy. The name of the candidate is concealed by folds of 

 the right hand margin which are fastened down and inscribed 

 with the examiner's sign-manual. 



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