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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The MSS. are : 

 Arabic 



Arabic and Persian - 

 Armenian - 

 Burmese - 

 Cambodian 

 Chinese 



Coptic (fragments) - 

 Hebrew 



Hebrew and German 

 Hindi 

 Hindustani 

 Korean 

 Marathi - 

 Oriya 



Pali and Burmese 

 Peguan 

 Persian 

 Pushtu 

 Siamese - 

 Sinhalese - 

 Syriac 

 Turkish - 



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The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. 'Uyun al-'irab : a treatise on Arabic 

 grammar, by 'Ubaid Allah b. Ahmad al-Fazari. With com- 

 mentary by 'All b. Faddal al-Mujashi'T ; A.D. 1187. No other 

 copy is known. 



2. Kitab al-iktidab : a commentary by Ibn al-SId al- 

 BatalyausT upon the philological treatise of 'Abd Allah ibn 

 Muslim ibn Kutaibah, entitled Adab al-Katlb ; A.D. 1206. 

 An excellent copy of a very scarce work. The only other 

 copies known in Europe are two MSS. in the Escurial, and a 

 modern copy of the first volume in the British Museum. 



3. Al-Sihah fi al-lughah : the lexicon of Al-JauharT ; 

 Vol. IV. ; A.D. 1215. A very fine collated copy. 



4. Al-Sihrih fi al-lughah ; 2 vols. ; A.D. 1216-17. A very 

 fine copy. 



5. A volume of the Kitab al-hawi al-kabTr, an extensive 

 treatise on Law, by 'AIT b. Muhammad al-Mawardi. Con- 



