40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



author entitled Kashf asrar al-mantik, which is possibly 

 identical with the Kashf al-asrar 'an ghawamid al-afkar by 

 Afdal al-Din Muh. b. Namawar b.'Abd al-Malik Khunji al- 

 Shafii'i. xiiith century. 12". No other copy seems to be 

 known. 



(7) Arba'in al-yamruiiyah, a catechetical treatise on Islam 

 by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi. xiii-xivth century. 8° Very 

 rare. 



(8) Talkhis fi al-tafsir, an abridged commentary on the 

 Koran by Ahmad b.Yusuf al-Kawashi. Vol. ii., from Surah xx. 

 to Ixxvi. xiii-xivth century. 4". Very rare. 



(9) Asas al-balaghah, the lexicon of Zamakhshari. Vol. i. 

 Copied A.H. 722 (a.d. 1322). Fol. Very rare. 



(10) 'Ibrat uli al-absar, a history from B.C. 331 to A.D. 1297, 

 by Isma'il b.Ahmad Ibn al-Athir, " Vol. ii. Copied A.H. 730 

 (a.d. 1329). 4°. No other copies of this important work are 

 known, except a MS. of vol. i. in the British Museum and a 

 fragment in Paris. 



(11) Sharh al-isharat, a commentary by Nasir al-Din al-TusI 

 on part ii. of Avicenna's Isharat, (on physics and metaphysics). 

 Copied A.H. 731 (a.d. 1.330). 8^ 



(12) A MS. containing : — (1) a kasTdah rhyming in lam on 

 the seven Readings of the Koran, apparently based on Ibn 

 Kathlr's work, by Shihab al-Din Ahmad b.'Imad al-Din 

 Isma'il al-Akfasi (?) ; (2) Shudur al-durar, a poem in praise 

 of Muhammad, by 'All b.Yahya ; (3) anecdotes of Sasanian 

 and early Arab times, with occasional verses, xivth cen- 

 tury. 4". 



(13) Al-Daka'ik, glosses on the differences between 

 Nawawi's Minhaj al-talibin and its original the Mukarrar of 

 Rafi'i. xivth century. 4". 



(14) Al-Hashiyah al-kazwinlyah, a supercommentary upon 

 a work on Shafi'i law apparently called Al-Sihah. Vol. i. 

 xivth century. 4°. 



(15) Kitab al-hudud, part of a copious commentary upon 

 a work on Shati'I law, dealing with penalties, xivth cen- 

 tury. 4". 



(16) Tafsir al-kabir, or Mafatih al-ghaib, Fakhr al-Din 

 Razl's commentary on the Koran. Vol. i., from i, 1 to ii. 121. 

 xivth century. Fol. 



(17) Al-Silah, a history of the scholars of Spain, by 

 Ibn Bashkuwal. The latter part, nearly corresponding to 

 p. 316 -end of the edition in Bibl. Arab. Hisp. xivth century. 

 4°. Very rare. 



(18) Kitab subul al-khairat, part of a large collection of 

 traditions, by Abu Tammam Muh. b. 'Abd Allah al-BardanI 

 al-Silafi al-Baghdadi. xivth century. 4". Neither the work 

 nor the author seems to be otherwise known. 



