40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



16. Al-Wafi bi'1-wafayat, a biographical dictionary by 

 Salah al-Din al-Safadl (died A.H. 764) ; a detached volume, 

 containing part of the lives of persons named Muhammad. 

 XlVth cent. 4°. 



17. Risalat fi 'ilm al-firasah, a treatise on the art of 

 physiognomy, by Muhammad ibn Abi Talib al-Dimashki 

 (died A.H. 727). XVth cent, (lacunae supplied XVIIIth 

 cent.) 8°. The only other MS. recorded is in the Khedivial 

 Library in Cairo. 



18. A Muhammadan prayer-book, partly in Arabic, partly 

 in " Aljamia," i.e., Spanish in the Arabic character. XYIIth 

 cent. 12°. 



19. Al-FathTyah fi 'ilm al-musTkl, a treatise on music, by 

 Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Hamid al-LadikT, composed under 

 Sultan BayazTd ii. (a.h. 886-918, a.d. 1481-1512). A.H. 1161 

 (a.d. 1748). 8°. 



Chinese and Tibetan MS. — 1. A volume of mystic dia- 

 grams and svmbols of the Northern Buddhist School, painted 

 in colours. XVIIIth or XlXth cent. Fol. 



Hebrew MSS. — 1. Sefer Ha-zikkuk, an Index Expurga- 

 tovius of Hebrew books compiled by the censor Domenico 

 Irosolomitano in 1-596, and later enlarged. XVIIth cent. 8°. 



2. A Hebrew translation of the Koran, from the Latin or 

 from the Italian version, printed at Venice in 1547. XVIth 

 or XVIIth cent. 4°. 



Hindustani MSS. — 1. Three poems, in the Dakhani 

 dialect, on the praises and liiiracles of Muhammad, viz., 

 (a) Rabat i jan, by Tufail Mustafa, dated A.H. 1278 (a.d. 1861), 

 (6) Man darpan, dated a.h. 1274, and (c) Man jivan, by 

 Rauzi, dated a.h. 1274. 8°. Apparently unknown. 



2. Char gulshan, a versified recension, in the Dakhani 

 dialect, by Mir Sharshar, of the "Tales of the Four 

 Dervishes." Composed A.D. 1772 for Muhammad Najib al- 

 Din Khan I'jaz, grandson of Muhammad 'All Khan, the 

 last ruling Nawab of Arcot. A.H. 1252 (a.d. 1837). 8°. 

 Apparently unknown. 



Pali MSS. — 1. Ekakkhara-kosa, a vocabulary of mono- 

 syllabic Pali words, by Saddhammakitti. Palm-leaf, in 

 Burmese script. XVIIIth or XlXth cent. 



2. Panchika-pradlpa, a commentary by itahula (XVth 

 cent.) upon Moggallana's Pali grammar. Palm-leaf, in 

 Sinhalese script. A fine MS., not much later than the 

 composition of this important work. 



3. Kanda-kumara-ashtaka, a series of Pali verses on the 

 legend and cult of the god Skanda, with Sinhalese trans- 

 lation, written in the centre of a square formed of 9 palm- 

 leaves, the rest of the space being filled with pictures 

 illustrative of the legends in the poem, and with ornamental 

 designs, skilfully cut with the stylus, and coloured. XVIIIth 

 cent. 



