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(75) Manakib 'Umar ibn al-Khattab (here styled Kitab ti 

 al-akhbar al-Imam 'Umar), a life of the second Caliph 'Umar, 

 by Tbn al-Jauzi. xviiith century. 8". Very rare. 



(76) Mubahith sharifah fi manakib Abu Hanifah, a life of 

 Abu Hanifah, by Husain, an official of the Ottoman High 

 Court ; composed in 1858. xixth century. 8°. No other copy 

 appears on record. 



(77) Ghayat al-shahvvat, a life of A'ou Nuwas with extracts 

 from his poems. Copied A.H. 1.328 (a.d. 1910). 8'\ Rare. 



(78) Diwan of Abu 'Abd Allah Muh. b. Bakhtiyar, called 

 Ablah. xxth century. 8°. With the exception of a few of 

 this author's poems in MSS. of the British Museum, no other 

 MSS. are known. 



(79) Diwan of Shihab al-Din Ahmad b. Muh. al-Khayyat. 

 xxth century. 8". Very rare. 



(80) A Samaritan commentary on the book of Genesis, by 

 Ibrahim, of the family of Murjan. xxth century. Fol. 



Arabic and Persian MSS. — (1) Busiri's Arabic poem 

 Al-Burdah in praise of Muhammad, with a Persian commentary 

 and translation by Abu al-Kasim Junaid b. Bahram al-Shirazi. 

 xvith century. 8". 



(2) Al-Du'ii al-sahifah al-kamilah, the prayer-book of Zain 

 al-'Abidin, the fourth Imam, with Persian interlinear transla- 

 tion and marginal glosses. Copied A.H. 1079 (a.d. 1068). 8*". 



(3) Nuzhat al-khatir, a lexicon of difficult words and 

 phrases of the Koran, by Siiistani ; with additions by Fakhr 

 al-Din Muhammad b.'Ali al-Najafi. Followed by a fragment 

 of a similar work on Koran and Traditions, and preceded by 

 an Arabic-Persian vocabulary of the Koran by " Saiyid 

 Sharif." xviith century. 4°. Very rare. 



Aramaic and Arabic MS. — (1) Marka's Commentary on 

 the Pentateuch, in Samaritan script. Copied a.h. 1154 (A.D. 

 1741). 4". 



Chinese Books. — (1) A collection of some 30 Chinese works, 

 in over 200 volumes, dealing especially with history and 

 geography, and including topographies of Shao-chou Fu and 

 Hsin-hui Hsien, biographies of Taoist saints, a complete 

 history of China, and the collected works of the Tang poet 

 Chang Chiu-ling. Presented by Mrs. Selby. 



Chinese MSS.— (I) A. collection of 12 Chinese MSS. from 

 Korea, comprising two editions of the Tung ju shih yu lu 

 (biographies of Confucian teachers and their, disciples in 

 Korea), manuals for officials of the Korean Government, 

 itineraries, etc. 



(2) Yii chih wen, miscellaneous essays by Ch'ien Lung. 

 A calligraphic copy. Copied a.d. 1780 (?j. 



Hebrew MSS. — (1) The Liturgy for the New Year, according 

 to the Spanish Rite, xivth century. Vellum. Fol. 



