DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 39 



Colonial Copyright Act ; and 134 were presented. Of the MSS., 

 70 were bought and the rest presented. 



The MSS. are :— 



Arabic - - - ~ - - 56 



Arabic and Persian _ _ _ 2 



Arabic and Turkish _ - - 4 



Coptic ----- 100 (approximately). 



Hebrew -.-.-_ 2 



Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic - 1 



Hindustani ----- 1 



Manipuri ----- l 



Persian ----- - 16 



Persian and Turkish - - - 3 



Siamese ----- 2 



Syriac ------ 1 



Turkish - - - - - 17 



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The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — (1) Minhaj al-bayan,_a dictionary of simple 

 and compound medicines, by Fahya b. 'Isa ibn Jazlah. Finely 

 written and carefully collated. Copied A.H. 489 (a.d. 1095-6). 

 4°. 



(2) Kitab al-gharTbin, a lexicon of difficult words used in 

 the Traditions, by Abu 'Ubaid al-Harawi. Copied A.H. 506 

 (a.d. 1112-3). 8". 



(3) Mujmil al-lughah, a lexicon, by Ahmad b. al-Faris 

 Zakariya al-Razi. Copied A.H. 589 (a.d.* 1193). 4°. 



(4) Vol. iii. of the Tabakat of Ibn Sa'd, biographies of the 

 Companions of Muhammad and their followers, xiith century. 

 8°. 



(5 ) Mukhtasar al-isti'ab, an abridgment of Ibn 'Abd al-Barr's 

 Biographies of the Companions of Muhammad, purporting to 

 have been prepared by Abu Tayy Yahya b. Khamldah. 

 xiiith century. 12". 



(6) Al-tarikh al-mukhtasar, a history of Islam, by Jirjis b. 

 al-'Amid (b. Abi al-Yasir), extending to A.H. 658. Copied 

 c. 1280 A.D. 8°. 



(7) Kawa'id al-ahkam fi ma'rifat al-halal wa'1-haram, a 

 treatise on Shiah law by Jamal al-Din Hasan b. Yiisuf b. 'All 

 b. al-Mutahhar al-Hilll; with copious marginal notes, probably 

 from the Idah, a commentary on the Kawa'id by a son of 

 al-Hilll. Copied a.h. 712 (A.D. 1312-3). '8°. 



(8) Sharh al-khutab al-Nubatiyah, a commentary by 'Abd 

 al-Eahim b. Ibrahim al-Barizi on the homilies of Ibn Nubatah 

 (died A.H. 374), and on some homilies of the latter's son Abu 

 Tahir and grandson Abu al-Kasim. Copied a.h. 716 (a.d. J 316-7). 

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