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7. A redaction of the Midrash Ha-hefes. Hebrew and 

 Arabic. In the Hebrew character. IGth and l7th century. 4° 



Hebrew Books. — 1. The Pentateuch, Five Rolls and Haf- 

 iaroth. Printed at Prague by Gershon b. Solomon, the founder 

 of Hebrew printing in that city, in 1530. On vellum. Fol. 



2. The Book of Exodus, with the Targum of Onkelos and 

 the Commentaries of Rashi and Nahmanides, while the 

 Arabic translation of Sa'adyah b. Joseph, Gaon, appears in 

 MS. in the margin. On vellum. Salonica, 1520. Fol. 



Japanese Books. — 1. A large collection, consisting of up- 

 wards of 1,500 vols, of Japanese works of the highest interest 

 on the native art, being especially rich in early illustrated 

 volumes by the fathers of artistic wood-engraving in Japan. 



2. A History of the Japanese Navy. 9 vols. 1889. 



Manipuri MS. — The first MS. acquired by the Museum in 

 the Manipuri character, with a description probably in the 

 writing of Francis Buchanan, the traveller. Palm leaf. 

 18th century. 



Pali MSS. — 1. A complete MS. of the Tikapatthana, an 

 extensive work included in the Canon of the Southern 

 Buddhists, and not yet edited. In the Burmese character. 

 19th century. 



2. The Dhammamala, a Pali work very little known. With 

 a commentary in Burmese. 



3. Yamaka, a Pali canonical text and not yet edited. A 

 perfect copy, and as such, rare. 19th century. 



Persian MSS. — 1. Haft Paikar of Nizami ; Persian in the 

 Hebrew character. 18th century. 8°. 



. 2. Divan of Hafiz. In the Hebrew character ; 1739. 

 Small 4^. 



3. Sharaf Namah, a history of the Kurds, by Sharaf Khan 

 BitlTsi. 19th century. Fol. 



Sanskrit MS. — Prabandha-chintamani, a history of Gujarat 

 and of the Jain religion in that region, in the form of a 

 -compendium of 24 narratives in verse ; 1775. 4^. 



Sinhalese MS. — Saddharma-ratnavaliya, by Dhammasena 

 Yatissara. A collection of tales in Sinhalese prose designed 

 to form a commentary on Buddhaghosa's Pali Dhammapada- 

 atthavannana. Palm leaves. 



Turki MS. — Bada'i' ul-Wasat, a Divan by Neva'i. I7th 

 century. 



Turkish Books. — A collection of 255 volumes published in 

 . Constantinople during the present reign, consisting of works 

 of wide and general interest; together vnth. 47 albums of 

 photographs of objects of interest in and about Constantinople. 

 Presented by H.I.M. Sultan Abdul Hamid II. 



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