42 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Of the Printed Books, 275 were bought ; 1,683 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 95 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong ; and 220 

 were presented. Of the MSS., 31 were bought and the rest 

 presented. 



The MSS. are as follows :— 



Arabic - - - - - 15 



Arabic and Turkish - - - 1 



Armenian _ _ _ _ i 



Chinese - - - - - 1 



Coptic - - - - - 2 



Gujarati - - - - - 6 



Hebrew - - - - - 2 



Hindi ----- 1 



Hindustani _ _ _ - 2 



Kashmiri - - - - - 2 



Persian - - - - - 11 



Persian and Turkish - - - 1 



Prakrit - - - - - 1 



Prakrit and Gujarati - - - 3 



Sanskrit . - - _ _ 3 



Sinhalese - •• - - - 58 



Turkish ----- 5 



Total - - - 115 



The most important acquisitions are as follows : — 

 Arabic MSS. — (1) Kitab al-durrah al-mudiyah, a treatise 

 on the differences between the Hanafl and Sbafi'i schools of 

 jurisprudence, by Abu al-Ma'ali 'Abd al-Malik a]-Juwaim(Imam 

 al-Haramain). Copied for the library of Abu al-Mahasin 'Abd 

 al-Razzak ibn 'Abd Allah ibn 'Ali ibn Ishak by Abu al-Hasan 

 *A1T ibn Muhammad al-Ablwardi in A.H. 482 (a.d. 1089). 8". 

 No other copy is known to exist. 



(2) Ahkam al-sultaniyah, a treatise on polity, by Mawardi. 

 Copied A.H. 540 (a.d. 1145). S''. Presented by H. F. Amedroz, 

 Esq. 



(3) Tafsir sittat ayyam al-khallkah, the first part of a 

 homiletic commentary on Genesis by John Chrysostom. This 

 volume treats mainl}'' of the Creation, two homilies dealing 

 with the following chapters. Copied A.H. 637 Ca.d. 1240). 4**. 

 Only a fragment of this work has hitherto been known to 

 exist. 



(4) Zuhrat al-riyad wa-nuzhat al-kulub al-marad, a treatise 

 on ethics, by Sulaiman ibn Daud al-Suwarl, originally written 

 in Persian under the title Bahjat ul-anvar min khafiyat ul-asrar, 

 and later amplified and translated into Arabic. Copied A.H. 809 

 (a.d. 1407). 8". No other copy is known. 



(5) Al-najm al-wahhaj, a commentary by Muhammad ibn 

 Miisa al-Damlri on Al-Nawawi's Minhaj, a summary of Shafi'i 

 law. Vol. 1, copied a.h. 858 (a.d. 1454); vol. 4, copied a.h. 898 

 (a.d. 1494). 4^ 



