36 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM^ 



Of the MSS., of which a classified list is appended, 153 were^ 

 bought and 4 were presented. 



Arabic 



- 



- 



- 



14 



Armenian - 



- - - 



_ 



_ 



1 



Cambodian 



- - _ 



. 



_ 



1 



Chinese 



- _ _ 



_ 



« 



1 



Coptic 



- _ _ 



_ 



_ 



39 



Ethiopic - 



- 



- 



- 



5 



Hebrew 



_ ■ _ 



_ 



_ 



7' 



Hindi 



_ _ _ 



- 



_ 



1 



Pali in Burmese character 



_■ 



_ 



6 



Cambodian character 



- 



_ 



2, 



Koman 



character - 



- 



_ 



1 



,, Sinhalese character 



_ 



_ 



7 



Persian 



- - _ 



_ 



_ 



23 



Sanskrit - 



_ _ _ 



_ 



_ 



2. 



Shan 



- _ _ 



_ 



_ 



1 



Sinhalese - 



- 



- 



_ 



42 



Syriac 



- 



_ 



_ 



1 



Tamil 



- 



- 



- 



a 



157 



The most important acquisitions for the year are a&- 

 follows : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. A MS. on vellum, containing two- 

 treatises on Christian theology, the first being a systematic 

 work in 25 chapters, without author's name ; the second a 

 special treatise on the cult of images of Christ and the Saints,. 

 by Theodoros Abu Kurrah, Bishop of Harran. Dated A.H.- 

 2(J4 (A.D. 877). 4°. 



2. The Canon of Avicenna ; written apparently in the 

 13th century. This copy was used by Kutb al-DTn ai-ShlrazT, 

 a well-known commentator on the Canon. Fol. 



3. The 25th Section of the Koran, in fine large gold letters^ 

 w^ith illuminated frontispiece ; written for the Mongol Sultan 

 Uljaitu, at Mosul, in A.H. 710 (a.d. 1310). Fol. 



4. Nazm al-Suluk, a dictionary of simple medicaments, by 

 Hubaish ibn Ibrahim al-TifllsT. A.H. 1015 (a.d. 1600). Fol. 



5. Kanun al-Adab, an Arabic -Persian dictionary, by 

 Hubaish al-TifllsT. a.h. 893 (a.d. 1487). Fol. 



Arabic Books. — 1. A collection of eleven works lithographed' 

 in Morocco. The most important amongst them are : — 

 (1.) The Koran. Fez, a.h. 1309 (a.d. 1892). 8°. 

 (2.) The Commentary of Saiyid Mahdi al-Wazzani upon 

 the Tuhfat of Ibn 'Asim, the chief manual of law 

 studied in Morocco. 3 vol. Fez, a.h. 1310 

 (A.D. 1893). 



(3.) Jadwat 



