DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 33 



Of the Printed Books, 582 were bought ; 925 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act and 114 under the Colonial 

 Copyright Act ; 147 were presented. 



The MSS. are : 



Arabic - - - - - - 25 



Armenian ------ 10 



Batak ._--._ l 



Coptic - - - - - - 6 



,, and Arabic - - - _ 5 



Ethiopic ------ 2 



Gujarati - - - - - - 1 



Hebrew ------ 1 



Hindi ------ 1 



Hindustani ----- 1 



Javanese ------ 1 



Laos ------ 1 



Manchu ------ 1 



Pali in Cambodian character - - 1 



„ Sinhalese character - - 2 



Persian ------ 10 



Prakrit 67 



Sanskrit - - - - - - 78 



Sanskrit and Sinhalese - - - 2 



Shan 1 



Sinhalese ------ 6 



Syriac - - - - ^ - 2" 



Turkish 6. 



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The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. Kitab al-adwiyat al-Kalblyat : a treatise 

 on medicine by Ibn STna, very finely written; A.D. 1352. 8°. 



2. Al-Kashshaf : a commentary on the Koran, by al- 

 ZamakhsharT (Xllth cent.), very finely written and illumi- 

 nated ; A.D. 1482. 8°. 



3. Tadkirat al-KahhalTn: a treatise on the Diseases of the 

 Eye, by *'Ali ibn 'Isa al-Kahhil ; A.D. 1491. 8°.j 



4. The Forty sayings of Muhammad, with a paraphrase in 

 Persian verse by Jam! (XVth cent.) ; every page richly 

 illuminated ; XVIth cent. 8°. 



5. A collection of forty traditions, bearing on the re- 

 spect and consideration due to Muhammadans ; written for 

 the Mamluk Ak-Bulat, by order of his master, the Egyptian 

 Sultan Abu al-Nasr Kanisauh al-Ghurl ; XVIth cent. 8°. 



6. Three pieces dedicated to Sultan Sulaiman I. (reigned 

 A.D. 1520-1567), namely : 1. A panegyric on the Sultan ; 



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