DEPARTMEXT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. .35 



Tlie MSS. are as follows : — 



Arabic -------83 



Arabic and Persian _ _ _ ., 6 



Arabic and Italian - - - - 1 



Arabic, Persian, and Turkish - - - 1 



Hebrew - - - -- - _ 4 



Hindustani and Persian - - - - 1 



Italian and Hebrew - _ _ _ 1 



Karshuni ______ 8 



Persian ------- 26 



Prakrit and Gujarati - - - _ 1 



Prakrit and Sanskrit - . - _ 1 

 Syriac -------3 



Syriac and Karshuni - - ^ - 2 



Turkish - - 24 



Turkish and Persian , - _ - 3 



Total - - - - iGo 



The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. Kitab al-rijal, alphabetically arranged 

 lists of Shi'ah traditionists, by Abu Ja'far Muh. b. Hasan al-TusI 

 (died A.H. 400). Copied a.h. 533 (a.d. 1139). 12'^." Very rare. 



2. Mukhtasar al-Kudurl, a commentary by Ahmad b. Muh. 

 al-Baghdadi (died A.H. 474) on Kuduri's manual of Hanafi law. 

 Vol. ii., beginning with the Kitab al-nikah. Copied A.H. 537 

 (a.d. 1142). 4°. No other MS. appears to be on record. 



3. Part of a large treatise on Traditions. Copied a.h. 611 

 (A.D. 1214). 4^ 



4. Sharh i'rab 'an kawa'id al-i'rab, a commentary by Abu 

 al-Hasan 'AIT b. A. al ahidi al-NlsabQrl on Ibn Hisham's 

 manual of syntax, xii-xiiith century. 8". No other copy 

 seems to be recorded. 



5. Part iii. of Al-Sam'ani's Kitab al-ansab in the recension 

 of Al-Shaibani, with many marginal notes in the handwriting 

 of Ibn Khallikan. xiiith centur^^ 4°. 



6. Vol. i. of Sharh al-sunna, a collection of Traditions by 

 Al-Farra al-Baghawi. xiiith century. 4". 



7. Another copy of the same, xivth century. 4\ 



8 Al-'Akidah, a Hanafi compendium of Islam by Abu 

 Ja'far Ahmad b. Muh. al-Tahawi, with a commentary by Najm 

 al-Din Abu Fada il Mankbiiruni ( ?). Copied A.H. 7.08 (A.D. 1308). 

 4''. Rare. 



9. Al-Kunyah fi al-fatawi, a treatise on the doctrines of 

 Abu Hanifah, by Najm al-Din Mukhtar b. Mahmud al-Zahidi, 

 Copied A.H. 723 (a.d. 1323). 4". The only other copies on 

 record are in Constantinople. 



10. A copious commentary on single words and phrases of 

 the Koran, described in a note on a piece of paper attached to 



o 0.69 n 



