40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



11. An abridgment of Kazvini's 'Aja'ib ul-makhlukat, with 

 numerous good sepia drawings in Indo -Persian style, xviith 

 century. 4". 



12. Poems of Abu Turab Beg (calling himself Kami, Firkati, 

 and Kashi). xviith century. 12°. 



13. Ruba'iyat of Muh. Salih (Kashfi). xviith century. 8°. 

 No other copy seems to be recorded. 



14. Astar-namah, a mystic masnavi poem, xviiith century. 

 12°. No other copy appears to be on record. 



15. Manakib ul-au]iya, lives of famous Sufis. xviiith 

 century. 8°. 



IG. An account of the capture of Haidarabad in A.H. 1030. 

 Copied A.H. 1216 (a.d. 1801). 8^ 



17. The collected poetical works of Ta'ir (Hasan Khan), 

 xixth centur3^ Fol. No other collection seems to be recorded. 



18. Kulliyyat i Darvish, the collected writings in prose and 

 verse of Muh. Hashim Darvish. xixth century. Fol. No 

 other collection appears to be on record. 



19. Four MSS., viz. : — (i) a volume containing odes of 

 Hafiz, lives of Muhammad, Fatimah, and the Martyrs, and 

 Shajarat ul-atrak, a history of Chinghiz Khan, &c. ; (ii) a 

 Persian version of Tabari's history ; (iii) theTa'rikh i Guzidah ; 

 (iv) the Anvar i Suhaili. xvii-xixth centuries. Presented by 

 the ividow of the late Colonel S. B. Miles. 



Syriac MSS.— l. Five MSS., comprising (i) four volumes 

 on the doctrines and rituals of the Christian Church, and 

 (ii) the shorter Grammar of Bar-Hebrseus. xvith-xixth 

 centuries. Presented by the %uidow of the late Colonel 

 S. B. Miles. 



2. Epistles, discourses, and other theological writings of 

 Athanasius the Great, Basilius, Amphilochius, Proclus, Ephraem, 

 John of Constantinople, Severianus, Leo, Felix, and Sophronius. 

 Copied at Edessa in a.d. 721 ; vellum. Fol. 



3. Fourteen fragments of MSS. of Biblical, liturgical, and 

 homiletic literature, on vellum, the oldest being of the sixth 

 century. Fol. 



Turkish MSS. — 1. A MS. containing (i) Gulshan i raz, a 

 mystic masnavi poem written for Murad II. by the Shaikh ul- 

 Islam Dasitazi, and (ii) Risalah i gulshani, a similar poem, 

 written under Muhammad II. Copied A.H. 925 (a.d. 1519). 

 12°. Rare. 



2. 'T"^mdat ul-hisab, a work on the law of inheritance, with 

 problems formulated in arithmetical figures, by Nasuh al- 

 Salahi al-Matraki., Copied A.H. 950 (a.d. 1543). 12\ " No 

 other copy seems to be recorded. 



3. Poems (Divan) of Hairati. Copied A.H. 961 (a.d. 1554). 

 8°. 



4. Mahmudiyyah, a vocabulary with explanations by 

 Firishtah Oglu. Copied a.h. 997 (a.d. 1588). 8°. 



