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taining a part of the section treating of criminal law ; 

 A.D. 1238. The Bibliotheque Khediviale at Cairo is the only 

 library known to possess portions of this work. 



G. A treatise on Compound Medicaments ; A.D. 1258. 



7. A Manual of Medicine, in catechetical form A.D. 1258. 



S. Part of the Nathr al-durar (portions of Vols. III. 

 and IV.), by Mansfir b. al-Husain al-Abl ; Xlllth cent. A 

 very rare work. Only one complete MS. is known. 



9. Al-Jami' li-kuwa al-adwiyat al-mufradah : A dictionary 

 of the properties of natural substances, by Ibn al-Baitar ; 

 Vol. III. ; A.D. 1302. 



10. Minhaj al-dukkan : A dictionary of simples, by Abu 

 al-Muna b. Abi-Nasr ; A.H. 715 == A.D. 1315. 



11. Al-Jami' al-latif fi fadii'il Makkah : A history and 

 topos^raphy of Mecca, composed a.h. 960 by Muhammad b. 

 Amln b. Zuhairah ; XVIIth— XVIIIth cent. The only M.S. 

 hitherto known is that in the Gotha Library. 



12. The Wafayat al-'ayan of Ibn Khallikan ; Vols. I. II. ; 

 XlVth cent, 



13. The same ; Vol. IV. ; A.D. 1452. Transcribed from a 

 MS. collated with the author's autograph MS. 



14. TiirTkh Maiyafarikln : A history of the city of 

 Maiyafarikln, composed A.H. 572 by Ibn al-Azrak al-Farikl ; 

 Xlllth cent. The only copy known to exist. 



15. Diwan al-sababah : An erotic anthology, by Ibn Abi 

 Hajalah ; A.D. 1390. 



16. The DTwan of Ja'far b. Shams al-Khilafah ; A.D. 1576. 

 The only copy known to exist. 



17. A volume of an anthological work compiled by an 

 author who lived at the court of the 'AbbasT Caliph Al- 

 Mustanjid Bi'llah (reigned a.h. 555-566) ; XTIIth cent. A 

 work hitherto apparently unknown. 



18. Durrat al ta'wil : a commentary on the verses of the 

 Koran occurring in more than one place, but differently 

 expressed. By Husain b. Muhammad al-Raghib al-Isfahani; 

 XVIth— XVIIth' cent. The only other MS. known is in a 

 Constantinople library. 



19. Kitab al-'alTyTn : A BabT scripture, by Subh i Azal ; 

 preceded by a Book of Prayers for various occasions, in 

 Persian ; XlXth cent. Apparently hitherto unknown in 

 Europe. 



ArTYienian MS. — 1. The Four Gospels. With a miniature 

 prefixed to each, and marginal illuminations throughout. 

 Preceded by a miniature and the Eusebian Canons ; A.D. 

 1581. 



