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former are small portions (either on papyrus or on parch- 

 ment) of Deuteronomy, I Samuel, the Psalms, Haggai, and 

 of the Gospels, the Acts and the Epistles. Among the latter 

 are some leaves from a Life of St. Mena, and parts of one or 

 two Homilies ; also a copy (abbreviated) of the letter of 

 Christ to Abgar. The texts are chiefly in the Sa'idic dialect 

 some in Arabic, and a few in Demotic. YIth to Xth cent. 



2. A small collection of Coptic fragments, the most re- 

 markable being a fragment of a papyrus leaf giving a patristic 

 text in a hitherto unknown variety of the Middle Egyptian 

 dialect, Vlth or Vllth cent. 



Hebrew MSS. — 1. Tanhum Yerushalmi's Arabic Com- 

 mentary on Ecclesiastes ; A.D. 1326. 8°. 



2. The decisions of Isaac of Trani (the younger) ; A.D. 1374, 

 A very tine MS., with contemporary Italian illuminations. 

 Fol. 



3. Portion of an allegorical Commentary on the Pentateuch, 

 by El'azar of Worms ; A.D. 1542. Small 4^. 



5. The smaller Talmudical Tractates, with a commentary 

 by Yehudah 'Abbas ; XVIIth cent. 8°. 



5. " Shittah Mekubbeseth : " a volume of notes on the 

 Talmudical Seder Kodoshim, etc. ; XVIIth cent. Fol. 



Hebrew Books. — 1.. Code of religious duties, by David 

 Oppenheim. Grodno, 1792. 8°. One of the few books 

 issued from the Press owned by Stanislaus Augustus, King of 

 Poland. 



2. The Targums (Chaldee Midrashic paraphrases) of the 

 Song of Songs and Ecclesiastes. With the Latin translation 

 of E. O. Schreckenfuchsius. Basle, 1553. 8°. 



3. The Psalms. Leiden, 1592. IG^. One of the first 

 Hebrew Books published by Raphelengius. 



4. The Talmudical Treatise "Synhedrin." Printed by 

 Gershon B. Moses Soncino ; Barco, 1497. Fol. The only 

 copy known. 



5. The 'Omer Ritual. Amsterdam, 1717. 32°. Probably 

 the smallest Hebrew Book ever printed. 



Pali and other MSS. — 1. A collection of Pali and other 

 MSS. collected by the late Dr. Rost of the India Office. 

 Among them are some writings, probably charms, on birch 

 bark, apparently from the neighbourhood of Assam ; one 

 being in a non- Aryan dialect, but in a character allied to the 

 Assamese. 



2. The Sotabba-malinT : a modern copy of a rare Pali MS., 

 containing historical legends of interest ; XlXth cent. 



3. Vinayavinicchaya-Sangaha : a rare Pali text, with a 

 Burmese Commentary ; A.D. 1859. 



4. A very 



