38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Of the Printed Books, 340 were bought ; 1,527 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act; 121 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Act ; and 145 were presented. Of the MSS.^ 

 71 were bought and 341 presented. 



The MSS. are :— 



Arabic ---------33; 



Arabic and Persian -_-.__ 2 



Arabic, Persian and Turkish ----- a 



Arabic and Spanish - - - - - - 1 



Armenian _->----_'7' 



Chinese ---------21 



Chinese, Manchu, Mongol, Tibetan, and Turki - 1 



Chinese and Mongol --__.- 2: 



Coptic -1^ 



English ------ -1 



Hebrew ---------2 



Hindi and Persian -------1 



Karshuni ------..j 



Mongol - --2". 



Persian -----..,__ 5J; 



Persian and Turkish - - -- - -11 



Turkish --.--.-.- 261> 

 Turkish and Arabic -.__._ 1 



Turkish and French ----__ i 



Turkish and Persian - -^ - . _ - 2 

 Turkish, Persian and French ----- i 



Zend 1 



412 



The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. Al-Sihah fi al-lughah, the lexicon of 

 al-Jauhari. Vol. VII. Copied a.h. 551 (a.d. 1156), and 

 critically revised. 



2. Al-Maksad al-asna, a treatise on the names of God, by 

 Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali (died a.h. 505). Copied a.h. 595 

 (A.D. 1199). 



3. The Makamat, or " Assemblies " of Hariri, a literary mis- 

 cellany. Copied A.H. 563 (a.d. 1168). A fine copy, and of 

 exceptional age. 



4. Sharh Majisti, an abridged recension, here ascribed to 

 Muh, b. Muh. Abu Nasr al-FarabT, of the Almagest or system 

 of astronomy of Ptolemy. Copied A.H. 628 {a.d, 1231). An 

 extreiaely rare, if not unique, recension. 



