38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The MSS. are :— 



Arabic - - - - ~ - 9 



Arabic-Persian _ _ _ _ i 



Burmese ------ 1 



Chinese ------ 21 



Coptic - 19 



Hebrew ------ 5 



Mandaitic ----- 1 



Pali 2 



Persian ------ 6 



Sanskrit-Tibetan - - - - 2 



Syriac ------ 2 



Tibetan 145 



Turkish ------ 4 



218 



The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. Part of the Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa, an 

 encyclopaedia of philosophy compiled by the society of the 

 Ikhwan al-Safa or " Brothers of Purity " (Xth cent.). 

 Part iii., treatise 5 — part iv,, treatise 3. A.H. 646 (a.d. 

 1248). 8". 



2. Kitab al-masa'il fi al-tibb, a manual of medicine in 

 catechetical form by Hunain ibn Ishak (died A.H. 294), with 

 an anonymous commentary. Xlllth cent. 8°. 



3. A commentary by Ahmad b. al-Hasan al-Jarabardi 

 (died at Tabriz in A.H. 746) upon the Minhaj al-wusul, a 

 treatise upon the bases of Muhammadan law b}'- al-Baidawi 

 (died A.H. 716). Books 4-6. a.h. 718 (a.d. 1318). 8°. ' No 

 manuscript of this commentary appears to be known in 

 Europe. 



4. 'Awarif al-ma'arif, a systematic treatise on Sufism by 

 Shihab al-Din 'XJmar ibn Muhammad al-Suhrawardi (died 

 A.H. 632). 8°. Written in Shiraz A.H. 729 (a.d. 1329). 



5. A detached volume of a work on Shafi'i law by 

 Muhammad b. Bahadur al-Zarkashi (died A.H. 794), entitled 

 Khadim al-Rafi'i wa'l Raudah. A.H. 854 (a.d. 1450). 4°. 

 Manuscripts of this work are very rare. 



6. Asas al-iktibas, an anthological work by Ikhtiyar ibn 

 Ghiyath al-DTn al-Husaini, completed in a.h. 897 (a.d. 1492). 

 XV-XVIth cent. &. 



Chinese MSS. — 1. A treatise on the recognition of one's 

 own faults (Chih kwo lun), by the Emperor K'ien-lung, in 



