38 ACCOUKTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



The MSS. are :— 











Arabic _ - - 



- 



- 



- 



23 



Arabic and Persian - 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Arabic and Spanish - 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Bengali - - - 



- 



- 



- 



4 



Chinese - - - 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Chinese and Tibetan 



- 



- 



- 



1 



_ Hebrew - 



- 



- 



- 



3 



Hindustani 



- 



- 



- 



3 



Japanese - - - 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Pali - - - - 



- 



- 



- 



8 



Pali and Siamese 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Pali and Sinhalese - 



- 



- 



- 



5 



Persian _ - - 



- 



- 



- 



8 



Sanskrit - - - 





- 



- 



8 



Sanskrit and Sinhalese 



- 



- 



- 



2 



Sinhalese - - - 



- 



- 



- 



21 



Sunda 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Syriac - - - 



- 



- 



- 



2 



Tamil 



- 



- 



- 



1 



Tibetan - 



- 



- 



- 



3 



Turkish - 



_ 



_ 



- 



5 



103 



The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic 3ISS. — 1. The Arabic version of three of the 

 works of Galen, namely (a) Kitab al-buhran, " De Crisibus," 

 (h) Kitab aiyam al-buhran, " De Diebus Decretoribus," and 

 (c) Kitab fi asnaf al-hummayat, '' De DifFerentiis Febrium." 

 A.H. 580 (a.d. 1184). 8°. None of these treatises has hitherto 

 been known to exist in Arabic. 



2. Nazm al-tafsTr, the Mu'allakah poem of Imru' al-Kais, 

 accompanied by a commentary by Abu Usamah Junadah 

 b. Muhammad al-Azdi al-HarawT (died A.H. 899). Xllth cent. 

 4°. No other copy of this commentary is known to exist. 



3. Al-Jami' al-kablr, a treatise on Hanafi law, by Muham- 

 mad b. al-Hasan al-Shaibanl (died A.H. 132). Vol. 1. AH. 601 

 (A.D. 1204). 4°. Part of a rare work; two detached 



volumes only are recorded, at Cairo and at Constantinople. 



4. Al-ZTj al-mu'tabir al-Sanjarl, astronomical tables by 

 Abu Mansur 'Abd al-Rahman al-Khazinl, including also tables 

 of conjunctions and eclipses, of dynasties, of latitudes and 



