.34 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 



2. Jami' al-aslain, in praise of Winter and Spring ; and 

 8. Rashh al-bal fi sharh al-hal, a moral raasnavi in Persian;; 

 XVIth cent. 8°. ' * 



7. Kitab al-tabTkh : a treatise on Cookery, by Muhammad 

 ibn al-Hasan al-Katib al-Baghdadi ; XVIth cent. 8°. 



8. Kitab masalik al-mamalik : the Geography of Abu 

 Ishak al-Istakhri (Xth cent.) ; illustrated with 21 original 

 maps; copied apparently from a MS. dated A.D* 1477. Sm. 

 fol. 



9. Transcripts of thirteen works by the fiab and his 

 followers, relating to the dissenting Doctrines held by them, 

 and on account of which they have suffered fierce perse- 

 cution at the hands of the orthodox Muhammadans ; XlXth 



cent. 8^. 



Armenian MS8. — 1. The Gospels, followed by the Apo- 

 calypse ; very finely written and adorned with miniatures of 

 very excellent workmanship ; Xlllth cent. 4°. 



2. Sharakan, or Hymn book of the Armenian Church' 

 ^ith illuminations ; XVth cent. 12°. 



3. A History of the Albanians of the Caucasus, by Moses 

 Kalankaitouatsi (Xth cent.), XVth cent. 8°. 



4. Two Tales : 1. The History of the City of Copper, from 

 the Turkish ; 2. The History of Josaphat and Barlaam ; 

 A.D. 1605. 8*^. 



5. The Chronicles of Kirakos of Gantzak (Xlllth cent.), 

 Matthew of Edessa (Xllth cent.), and Thomas of Metzoph 



.(XVth cent.); A.D. 1660. 4°. 



Batak MS. — A Batak text engraved on Bamboo. 



Chinese Books. — 1. The Hwang Ch'ao king she wan suh 

 peen, commonly known as the " Blue Book of China," con- 

 taining the views of the highest officials of the Empire on 

 domestic and foreign politics. Thirty-two volumes. 1888. 8°. 



2. Several large and interesting bilingual and trilingual 

 vocabularies of the languages of Mongolia, Tibet, Korea and 

 Manchuria; XlXth cent. fol. 



Coptic M8S. — 1. A Lectionary of the Holy Week and 

 Easter, in Bohairic and Arabic ; XlVth cent. 



2. A Theotokia, in Bohairic and Arabic ; XVIIth cent. 



3. Doxologies for certain Religious Festivals, in Bohairic 

 aiid Arabic ; XVIIth cent. 



4. Biblical Texts, especially a page from the Ahmimic 

 version of the Epistles of Jude and James, the only New 

 Testament text in this dialect known ; 



