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(6) Makarim al-akhlak, a work on ethics by Abu Bakr ibn 

 *Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Dunya. Copied A.H. 966 

 (A.D. 1558). 12°. 



(7) Taisir al-wusul, a work on the Traditions, compiled by 

 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'All al-Diba' from the Jami' al-usul li-ahadith 

 al-rasrd. Copied a.h. 993 (a.d. 1585). 4°. 



(8) Sharh al-shama'il, a commentary by 'Abd al-Ra'uf al- 

 Munawi on Muhammad ibn 'Isa al-Tirmidi's Shama'il, traditions 

 of the Prophets, xviiith century. 4°. 



(9) Sahifat al-ausa'iyah, Najamat al-ruh, Tadli' al-kuds, 

 Kitab al-aksa, and Jawami' al-hayakil, works on Babi theology 

 by Subh i Azal. Copied a.d. 1911. 8°. 



Arabic and Turkish MS. — (1) Nuzhat al-abrar fim anakib, 

 al-akhyar, biographies of the jurist Abu Hanlfah and some of 

 his earlier followers ; in Arabic, with marginal glosses, etc., in 

 Turkish. Copied A.H. 867 (a.d. 1462), by Ahmad ibn Ahmad 

 al-Bastaml. 4". No other copy is known to exist. 



Armenian MS. — The Key of Truth, a manual of the 

 Paulician Church of Armenia. Copied A.D. 1782. 8". Presented 

 by F. C. Conyheare, Esq. 



Chinese MS.—(\) Parts 11903-4 of the Yung-lo ta teen, the 

 great Imperial Encyclopjedia compiled in 1408, and originally 

 comprising 22,877 parts and an index of 60 parts, the whole 

 being bound in 11,100 volumes. Only one copy of the complete 

 work survived to the nineteenth century, and this was almost 

 entirely destroyed in the burning of the Han-lin College at 

 Peking during the Boxer disturbances in 1900, only a few 

 volumes being saved. Fol. Presented hy G. M. H. Playfair, 

 Esq. 



Coptic MSS. — (1) A papyrus volume containing 109 ff., 

 comprising a Sahidic version of Deuteronomy, the Book of 

 Jonah, and the Acts of the Apostles. Probably early ivth 

 century. 



(2) A volume of discourses by Bishop Psote and Severus of 

 Antioch. Vellum ; xth century. 4''. 



Hebrew MSS. — (1) Sepher Mesharim, a digest of religious 

 law, by Yeruham. xiv-xvth century. 4". 



(2) Sepher Sedah Ladderekh, a similar work, by Menahem 

 ben Aharon. C. xvth century. 4°. 



Hindi MS. — (1) A history of the Rajas of Jodhpur. 

 Copied A.D. 1825. Presented hy Colonel S. R. Miles. 



Hindustani MSS. — (1) Haidar-namah, an account of the 

 fall of Tippu Sultan and the capture of Seringapatam. 8°. 

 Presented hy Frederick Jones. Esq. 



(2) A poem on the coronation of His late Majesty King 

 Edward VII., composed and written in a calligraphic hand by 

 Kunwar Durga Prasad, Talukdar, of Sandila, Hardoi District, 

 Oudh. 4°. Presented hy L. H. Turner, Esq. 



