DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 33 



Of the Printed Books, 392 were bought ; 917 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act and 114 under the Colonial 

 Copyright Act; and 112 were presented. 

 The MSS. are : 



Arabic ------ 13 



Armenian ------ 1 



Bengali ---_._ i 



Burmese ------ 1 



Coptic - 1 



Hebrew (three being Hebrew-Arabic) 11 



Malayalam ----- l 



Pali in Burmese character - - 10 



„ Sinhalese character - - 4 



Panjabi - - - - - - 1 



Persian ------ 5 



Samaritan ----- 7 



Sanskrit 1 



Sinhalese - - - - - - 10 



Syriac - 2 



Tamil ..-.-- 4 



Turkish 1 



A non- Aryan dialect not determined 1 



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The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. The Canons of the Councils, preceded by 

 the Apostolic Constitutions, and followed by a body of 

 Canons addressed by Eustathius to Epiphanius, Patriarch of 

 Constantinople ; A.D. 994. 



2. The Protevangelium of James, followed by Homilies and 

 Lives of the Saints; A.D. 1172. 4°. 



3. DTwanal-adab : an Arabic Lexicon, by Isbak ibn Ibrahim 

 al-Farabi ; A.D. 1470. Fol. 



4. Al-Kanun fil-tibb : a system of Medicine, by Ibn Slna • 

 A.D. 1659. Fol. 



5. Siraj al-mulfik : a treatise on politics, by Muhammad 

 al-Turtushi ; XVIIth cent. 4°. 



6. The Psalms, followed by the Biblical Canticles, Arabic 

 and Greek ; XVIIth and XVIIIth cent. Large 4°. 



7. A large portion of Yefeth's Arabic Commentary on 

 Ezekiel, in the Hebrew character; A.D, 1459. 8°. 



8. Samuel el-Maghrebi's " Book of Commandments," in the 

 original Arabic, in the Hebrew character; a.d. 1510. 8". 



CoiMc MSS. — 1. A collection of Coptic fragments, con- 

 sisting mainly of Biblical and Patristic Texts. Among the 

 0.125. C former 



