DEPARTMENT OF OKiENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 39 



the handwriting of the author, with his seal and signature. 

 This manuscript, which is elegantly written and enclosed in 

 finely carved boards and case, was taken from the Summer 

 Palace by General Montauban in the campaign of 1860. 

 Written a.d. 1782. Fol. 



2. A chronicle, by the Emperor K'ien-lung» of the ten 

 successful military campaigns conducted by him. The MS. 

 is a copy made by the minister Wu Sheng-lan. 12°. 



3. A treatise on the " Great Plan," one of the Chapters of 

 the Book of History, by the Emperor K'ien-lung. Embroidered 



' in silk, roll form. 



Chinese Printed Books.— I. A coL'ection of about 850 

 Chinese volumes, forming the greater part of the Chinese 

 library collected by the late T. Watters, consisting mainly of 

 . Buddhist works and of works on the geography of Buddhist 

 countries ; together with a very fine copy of the Chinese 

 classics. This collection throws a valuable light on the 

 places visited by the early Chinese Buddhist travellers in 

 India and in the intermediate countries. 



Coptic MSS. — 1. Fifty folios of the Pauline Epistles, in 

 the Sahidic version. Y-VIth cent. 



2. Twelve documents on papyrus, belonging to a series 

 discovered in the monastery of Tcheme in Western Thebes, 

 of which the British Museum already possesses 70. They 

 consist of wills, deeds of sale, records of disputes over inherit- 

 ance, &c., and belong to the first half of the Vlllth cent. 



A.D. 



Hebrew MSS. — 1. Seri hag-guf, a treatise on medicine by 

 Nathan b. Joseph Palquera. Dated A.M. 5192 (a.d. 1432). 4°. 



2. A marriage-contract between Ephraim b. Kalonymos 

 Sanguini and Luna, daughter of Mordecai Fano. The oldest 

 illuminated Hebrew document of the kind hitherto made 

 known. Modena, A.D. 1558. 



3. A commentary on the first part of the Mishnah, called 

 Seder Zera'im, by Isaac b. Melchizedek. Vellum, a.m. 5047 

 (A.D. 1287). 12°. 



4. Prayer-book of the" German rite. Vellum, XIII- 

 XlVth cent. 12°. 



• 5. Services for the New Year and Day of Atonement, 

 characterised by features of the rare old French ritual. 

 Written in Corfu in the XVIilth cent. 8°. 



.. Hebrew Printed Books, — 1. The first edition of David 



Kimhi's Hebrew Dictionary. Printed before 1480, probably 



at Rome. 



. .2. Sefer Habakbuk, a parody on the feast of Purim, 

 .written in imitation of the prophetical style of the Old 



Testament. Printed at Pesaro, a.d. 1513. 



