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5. A handbook of police regulations, by Muh. b. Muh. b. 

 Ahmad (Ibn al-Ikhwah;. Copied a.h. 771 (a.d. 1370). No 

 other copy appears to be known. 



6. Talibat al-talabah, a dictionary of the legal terms of 

 Hanafi jurisprudence, by Najm al-DTn 'Umar b, Muh. al-Nasafi. 

 14th century copy. 



7. Al-Jami' al-wajiz fi al-fatawi, a collection of legal decisions, 

 by Hafiz al-Din Muh. b. Muh. 'Imad al-DTn al-Kardar!. Copied 

 A.H. 880 (a.d. 1475), in a fine script. No other MS, appears tc 

 be on record. 



8. Al-DarT'ah ila makarim al-shari'ah, a treatise on ethics by 

 Abu al-Kasim al-Hasan b. Muh. b. al-Mufaddal al-Raghib 

 al -Isfahan!. 15th century copy. 



9. Al'Mukarrar fl ma tawathar min al-kira'at al-sab', a rare 

 and important work on the seven principal textual readings of 

 the Koran, by 'Umar b. Kasim al-Mukri' al-Nashshar. Copied 

 A.H. 918 (a.d. 1512), in a calligraphic hand. 



10. Ya'ud al-shabab, an anthology of poems by authors of 

 the 6th century A.H., with biographies, abridged by 'AIT b. Muli. 

 al-Rumi (al-Rida'T) from the KharTdat al-kasr of 'Imad al-DTn 

 al-Isfahani. 17th or I8th century copy. No other exemplar 

 appears to be known. 



Armenian 3ISS. — 1. Canons of the Apostles, Doctors, and 

 Councils of the Church. 



2. A collection of philosophical, ethical, and religious works. 

 A.E. 1165. 



3. Histories of martyrdoms. A.E. 1260. 



4. History of Jerusalem, a.e. 1293. 



5. Popular poems of John of Telguran, Naghash, etc. A.E, 

 1035. 



6. A Dictionary of classical Armenian. 



Chinese MSS. — 1. Ching te yao, a treatise on the art of 

 pottery. 2 pen, 



2. Hui chiang t'ung chih, a description of Muhammadan 

 countries. 12 pe7i in 2 t'ao. 



3. Fa hai kuan Ian, a treatise on Buddhist doctrine. 2 pin, 



4. Yu shuo, a treatise on jade. 1 pen. 1890. 



5. Ch'in ting meng ku yiian liu, an account of the origins of 

 the Mongols. 8 pen in 1 t'ao. 1777. 



6. Yii chih ta tsang yii chia shih ssti i ching, a scripture of 

 the Yoga sect of Buddhism. 1 pen. 



7. A collection of Hi vocabularies. 4 pen in 1 t'ao. 



S. Memorials and Imperial rescripts of the reign of Hsien 

 Feng (1851-61). 2 pts. 



