DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 39 



The MSS. are :— 



Arabic ---->--__ ]8 



Arabic and Turkish - - - - _ _ i 



Batak _._ --_-_i 



Burmese --------_i 



Chinese - - - - - - - - _4 



Chinese and English -___-_ i 

 Coptic --_---. ..3 

 Hebrew - -"- - -- - - -4 



Hindustani - - - - - - - - 2 



Kanarese ---------2 



Lolo ---- 31 



Malay --------.1 



Mongolian - - -- - - _ -5 



Mongolian and Kussian - ~ - - - _ 1 

 Pahlavi -- - - - -- - -i 



Pali and Burmese -------i 



Persian ------,«_8 



Prakrit and Sanskrit --.-___ j 

 Sanskrit ---------39 



Tamil 2 



Tibetan and Mongolian - - - - : - - 2 



Turkish - - _ 9 



Turkish and Italian --_»__ 1 



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The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. Al-Jawahir al-madmumah, a commentary 

 by Radi al-Din (Ibrahim ibn Sulaiman al-MantikI ; died a.h. 

 732) upon the Manzumah, a treatise by *Umar b. Muliammad 

 al-NasafI upon the divergences of the orthodox schools of 

 jurisprudence. Copied in Ancyra in A.H. 743 (a.d. 1342). No 

 other copy appears to be on record. 



2. Al-Misbah al-murshid, a monophysite treatise on the 

 Christian faith by Yahya b. Jurair al-Takriti (flor. a.h. 472). 

 Books 9-54 (end). Copied a.h. 759 (a.d. 1358). Very rare. 



3. Nihayat al-arab fi funiin al-adab, an encyclopaedia by 

 Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Nuwairi (died a.h. 733). Vol. 8, 

 on botany. XlVth century. 



4. Jamal al-kurra, an introduction to the tradition of the 

 text of the Koran, by Ibn Hajar al-'AskalanI (died a.h. 852). 

 Copied A.H. 835 (a.d. 1429). Apparently the only other MS. 

 known is that of the Khedivial Library in Cairo. 



