40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



3. Massekheth Purim, a parody on the feast of Purim, 

 written in imitation of the Talmudic style. Printed at 

 Pesaro near the beginning of the XYIth cent. 



4. L'Ornement Hebraique, par D. Gunzburg et V. StassofF. 

 1905. A large portfolio containing coloured reproductions 

 of Hebrew manuscript illuminations. 



Mandaitic MSS. — 1. A manuscript containing part of 

 the Kolasta, comprising the Book of Souls, and hymns. 

 XlXth cent. 



Pali MS. — 1. The Upari-pannasa, the third section in 

 the Majjhima-nikaya of the Sutta-pitaka. Written in the 

 old Burmese square character, on palm-leaves. Early XlXth 

 cent. 



Persian MSS. — l. A divan of poems (ghazals) by Zaki 

 Hamadani (died a.h. 1030). a h. 1036 (a.d. 1C21). 8°. The 

 Divan of a very little known author, no copy of which is at 

 present recorded to exist in Europe. 



2. Salutar, a treatise on farriery, being the Persian trans- 

 lation of the Sanskrit Salihotra, made by order of 'Abd 

 Allah Khan Firiiz-jang about A.H. 1037. With 17 miniatures. 

 a.d. 18.51. 4°. 



Sanskrit and Tibetan MS. — 1. Abhidhana-muktamala, 

 in Tibetan mNgon brjod mu tig phreng ba, a vocabulary of 

 Sanskrit synonyms, with Tibetan iiLterpretation. XVII- 

 XVIIIth cent. 



Syriac MSS. —1. A volume containing (1) the Book of 

 Gifts, by Mar Shubhha le-Maran : (2) a homily on the 

 solitary life, addressed to monks and others by Abraham 

 of Nephtar : (3) an account of persecutions of Christian 

 Fathers, by Bar-^adbeshabba : (4) a homily of Theodore [of 

 Mopsuestia] against the followers of Macedonius, &c. Vellum, 

 IX-Xth cent. 8°. 



2. Minor Offices of the Nestorian Church. A. Gr. 1909 

 (A.D. 1598). 8°. 



Tibetan MSS.—l. The Kanjur (bKa-'gyur), the first or 

 scriptural section of the Buddhist Canon of Tibet, in 106 

 large folio volumes, finely written and illuminated. 



2. Three copies of the Pahcha-vimsati-sahasrika-Prajna- 

 paramita, one of the great philosophical works of the 

 Buddhist scriptural canon, in large folio volumes, finely 

 written in gilt letters. 



3. A copy of the same work remarkable for its extremely 

 archaic spelling. Fol. 



4. Ashta-sahasrika-Prajna-paramita, one of the chief 

 philosophical works of the Buddhist scriptural canon, 

 finely written in gilt letters, and enclosed in beautifully 

 carved wooden boards. Large fol. 



