DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 39 



Additions. — The number of volumes, pamphlets, &c., added 

 to the collections of the Department during the year is 3,512, 

 of which 3,346 are Printed Books and 166 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, l,3e51 were bought; 1,432 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 207 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong ; and 

 356 were presented. Of the MSS., 155 were bought and the 

 remainder presented. 



The MSS. are as follows :— 



Amharic -__-._ 3 



Arabic - - - - - - - 105 



Arabic and Persian _ - _ .. 1 



Arabic and Turkish - - _ _ 1 



Aramaic and Arabic _ _ _ _ 1 



Armenian ------ 1 



Chinese - -- ~ - - - - 13 



Hebrew -------4 



Hebrew and Arabic . . _ . 2 

 Korean -------1 



Persian ------- 20 



Persian and Arabic _ - _ - 2 



Persian and Turkish _ . _ _ i 



Shan ----- - 1 



Sinhalese _--.._- i 



Tamil ------- 1 



Turkish ------- 8 



Total - - - - 166 



The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — (1) Sharh al-ghayah, a commentary by 

 Abu al-Hasan b.'Umar on the Kitab al-ghayah of Imam Abu 

 Bakr, on the vocalisation of the Koran. Copied A.H. 443 

 (a.d. 1051), from an archetype dated A.H. 413. 12^ No other 

 copy is known. 



. (2) Ta'rTkh Madinat al-Salam, or Ta'rikh Baghdad, lives of 

 the scholars of Baghdad, by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi. Vols. 13 

 and 14, extending from the names beginning with " Laith " to 

 the end of the work. Copied A.H. 625 (a.d. 1227). Fol. No 

 complete volumes of this great work are known to exist in 

 Europe, except a copy of vol. 6 in the British Museum. 



(3) Al-Jam' bain al-sahihain, a dictionary of names of 

 traditionists, compiled by Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Azdl from 

 works of Abu Nasr al-Kalabadi and Abu Bakr al-Isfahani, 

 which were derived from Bukharl and Muslim respectively. 

 Copied A.H. 656 (a.d. 1258). 4°. 



(4) Mulhat al-i'rab, a poem by Hariri on Arabic grammar, 

 with a commentary. Copied A.H. 685 (a.d. 1286). 8°. 



(5) Makamat of Hariri. A made-up MS. in several hands, 

 the oldest and largest part being of the xiiith century. 4°. 



(6) A treatise on logic, apparently called Mukhtasar ; 

 abridged, as it would seem, from a longer work by the same 



