DEPARTMEN OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 41 



2. The Martyrdom of Victor, son of Romanus, and Pope 

 Celestine's Encomium on Victor, a.d. 981. Vellum. 



3. Chrysostom's Encomium on the Archangel Raphael, a.d. 

 956. Vellum. 



4. Chrysostom's Discourse on John the Baptist, and Pacho- 

 mius's Exhortation to a brother. A.D. 986. Vellum. 



5. The Discourse of Timothy of Alexandria on Abbaton, 

 the angel of death. A.D. 982. Vellum. 



6. The Mysteries of John the Baptist, and a biography of 

 Pesynthius of Coptos. A.D. 1006. 



7. A life of the anchorite Onnophrius, and a sermon on 

 Christmas by Demetrius of Antioch. 



8. Part of a Discourse by Celestine of Rome on the Arch- 

 angel Gabriel, a.d. 989. Vellum. 



9. The history of Aaron the Monk; a Discourse on the 

 Archangel Michael, by Timothy of Alexandria ; the prayer of 

 Athanasius at death; and the Vision of St. John. a.d. 992. 



10. An Encomium by Theodore of Antioch on the martyr 

 Theodore Anatoleus. Dated, in a reader's note, a.d. 995. 

 Vellum. 



Hebrew Printed Books. — 1. The Tractate Niddah of the 

 Babylonian Talmud. Soncino, 1489. Only 6 other copies are 

 known to exist. 



Persian MSS. — 1. Kisas al-anbiya, select legends from 

 TabarT's history. 13th or 14th century copy. 



2. Zafar-namah i Nasirl, a poetical account of the Persian 

 conquest of Herat in 1857, composed in 1859. No other copy 

 appears to be recorded. 



3. DTvan or poems of Muhsin. Copied A.H. 1245 (a.d. 1829). 

 No other copy appears to be recorded. 



Turkish MSS.—l. A collection of 259 Turkish MSS., chiefly 

 works of poetry. These volumes form the larger part of the 

 collection, consisting of 325 Oriental MSS., which was be- 

 queathed to the British Museum by the late Elias J. W. Gibb. 

 Esq. 



2. Ka'ba niimah, a versified account of the legendary build- 

 ing of the Ka'ba at Mecca by Abraham, preceded by a metrical 

 account of the latter's descendants of the line of Ishmael by 

 Ohubari. Copied A.H. 963 (a.d. 1556). No other copy appears 

 to be on record. 



3. Nasihat namah, a work on ethics by Sinan al-DTn Yusuf b. 

 Khizr (Khwajah Pasha). Copied A.H. 997 (a.d. 1588). Appa- 

 rently no other copy is on record. 



L. D. Barnett. 



