DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 33 



Photography. — Ninety-six applications have been made to 

 photograph books and MSS. in this Department. 



Additions. — The number of volumes, pamphlets, fcc, added 

 to the collections of the Department during the year is 2,144, 

 of which 2,067 are Printed Books and 87 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 1,912 were bought; 1,863 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 88 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong; and 155 

 were presented. Of the MSS., 78 were bought and the rest 

 presented. 



The MSS. are as follows :— 



Arabic - - - - 52 



Arabic and Persian - - 2 



Chinese - - - - 3 MSS. and 1 col- 



lection of in- 

 scribed bones. 



Coptic - - - -1 (set of frag- 



ments). 



Hebrew - - - - 1 



Kashmiri - - - - 1 



• Persian - - - - 8 



Persian and Turkish - - 1 



Sinhalese - ■■ - - 1 



Syriac - - - - 1 



Turkish - - - - 15 



Tota - - 87 



The most important acquisitions are as follows : — 



Arabic 3fSS. — (1) Al-Hamasah, the poem of Abu Tammam. 

 Copied A.H. 491 (a.d. 1097), with supplements probably of the 

 xiiith century. 8°. 



(2) Kitab al-luma', a treatise on Sufism, by Abu Nasr 'All 

 ibn 'Abd Allah al-Sarraj. Copied A.H. 548 (a.d. 1153). 8". 

 Probably the oldest surviving copy of this important work. 



(3) A collection of Traditions derived from Al-Bukharl's 

 Sahih, with marginal supplements giving traditions found in 

 Muslim's recenj^ion of Al-Bukhari and in Malik's Muwatta'. 

 Copied A.H. 581 (a.d. 1185). 4". 



(4) Amali, traditions of Al-Jurjani (Abu 'Abd Allah Muh. 

 ibn Ibrahim ibn Ja'far al-Ja'farlyah al-Yazdi). xii-xiiith 

 century. 12". Extremely rare. 



(5) Vol. ii. of the Kitab al-gharibain of Abu 'Ubaid 

 al-Harawi, a lexicon of the Koran and Traditions, finely 

 written and well collated, xii-xiiith century. 8*^. 



(6) I'jaz al-kur'an, a treatise on the theology of the Koran, 

 by Abu Bakr Muh. ibn al-Taiyib ibn Muh. al-Bakilani al- 

 Ash'arl. xii-xiiith century. 8"*. Extremely rare; only one 

 other MS. is known to exist. 



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