DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 35 



Of the Printed Books, 219 were bought ; 1,278 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 49 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Act ; and 90 were presented. 



The MSS. are :— 



Arabic --_-_-. 94 



Arabic and Persian - - - - 2 



Arabic and Turkish - - - - 3 



Carshunic ------ 6 



Carshunic and Arabic - _ - l 



Chinese ------ 2 



Coptic* ------ 7 



Hebrew ------ 8 



Italian and Greek (in Hebrew 



characters) - _ _ . 1 



Japanese ------ 3 



Persian ------ 20 



Persian and Kurdish - .- - 1 



Persian and Turkish - - - 3 



Panjabi ------ 1 



Pushtu ------ 1 



Spanish ------ 1 



Turkish 9 



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The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. Al-Jam' bain al-sahfhain. A digest of 

 all the traditions recorded in the Collections of Al-BukharT 

 and Muslim. Compiled by 'Umar b. Badr b. Sa'Id al-Mausili 

 (died A.H. G22). Written a.d. 1216 (a.h. 612); on the last 

 leaf is an autograph note by the author giving the names of 

 the various scholars before whom the book was read, dated 

 the beginning of Rabl' I., A.H, 622. 



2. WasTyat al-nabl'. The Testament of Muhammad 

 addressed to the companion Abu Hurairah, handed down by 

 Al-Hasan al-Basri. Entirely in the handwriting of the 

 calligrapher Yakut al-Musta'simT, A.D. 1228. 



8. Al-Sami fi al-asami. An Arabic classified dictionary, 

 explained in Persian. By 'Abd al- Malik b. Muh. al-Tha'alibT 

 (died A-.H. 429). a.d. 1283 (a.h. 682). 



* Including 2 boxes of miscellaneous fragments (Or. 5,D87-6,?36). . 

 130. D 



