38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



38. Is'af al-mubatta, alphabetical lists and brief biographies- 

 of traditionalists mentioned in Malik's Muwatta, by Al-Suyuti. 

 xviiith century. 8". Only one other copy appears on record. 



39. Kitab al-hamasah, a collection of ancient poems 

 arranged in seven chapters according to subject ; different from 

 the Hamasas of Al-Bukhturi and Abu Tammam. xviiith cen- 

 tury'. 12". 



40. Al-E,isalah al-makkiyah, a treatise -on Sufism, by 'Afif 

 al-Din 'Abd Allah b. As'ad al-Yafi'i al-Shafi'I al-Tamimi 

 xviiith century. 8". Very rare. 



41. Sufic poems of 'Abd al-Ghani b. Ismail al-Nablusi. 

 xviiith century. 8". Very rare. 



42. A collection of tracts ascribed to Aristotle, Al-Farabi, 

 Yahya b. 'Adi, Avicenna, etc. xviiith century. 8". Some of 

 these §eem to be very rare. 



43. Asrar al-lughah, a vocabulary of words and phrases 

 with explanations, by Ahmad b. Muh. al-Isfahani. xixth cen- 

 tury. 8°. No other copy seems to be on record. 



44. Mizan al-'ukul, a manual of logic, by Muh. b. Yunus 

 al-Shuwai'i. Copied a.h. 1221 (a. d. 180G). 8". No other copy 

 is on record. 



45. A commentary by Abu Bakr Zakariya Yahya al-TibrizI 

 (a.h. 421-502) on the Kitab al-ikhtiyarat or Mufaddaliyat, an 

 anthology of ancient poetry compiled by Abu 'Abd al-Rahman 

 al-Mufaddal al-Dabbi (died A.H. 170), with the text of the latter 

 This commentary was composed, according to the colophon, 

 in a.h. 486 ; and the archetype of the present copy was written 

 in the same year, xixth century. S'\ No other copy is 

 recorded. 



46. Nineteen MSS., chiefly of works of history and gram- 

 mar, of which the most important are the following : (i) 

 Akhbar al-duwal, a general history by Abu al-'Abbas Ahmad 

 b. Sinan al-Karamilnl ; xviiith century ; 8° ; (ii) part of Kitab 

 al-raudatain, a history by Abu Shfimah of 'Imad al-Din Zinki 

 and his son Nur al-Din, Atabaks of Mausil, and of Salah al-Din, 

 Sultan of Egypt and Syria ; copied A.H. 675 ; fol. ; (iii) Kurrat 

 al-'iijam, a history of Yemen to A.H. 923 by Ibn Daiba' ; copied 

 A.H. 1023; 8°; (iv) part of a history of Bagdad and the 

 neighbouring country under Murad IV. ; copied A.H. 1227 ; 

 fol. ; (v) a history of Oman, in 40 chapters ; copied A.H. 1097; 

 fol. Presented by the widoiu of the late Colonel S. B. Miles. 



Arabic and Persian MS. — 1. The Makamiit of Al-Hariri, 

 with an interlinear Persian translation of the greater part of 

 the work, completed in a.h. 587. Copied a.h. 662 (a.d. 1263). 

 Fol. This translation seems to be otherwise unknown. 



Arabic and Italian MS.~1. Dialogues in Arabic with 

 Italian translation, compiled by Giuseppe Carassi. Written at 

 Malta in A.D. 1808. 12^ 



