88 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. ' ' 



Oarshunic MSS. : — 



1. The Book of the Ladder, by John Climacus. XVIth cent. 



2. Discourses of Ephrem Syrus. A.D. 1804. 



3. Disputations betv/een Theodorus Abu Kurrah and the 

 KhalTfah Ma'mun of Baghdad, early in the 9th century.. 

 Followed by a life of the monk Bahlrah and an account of 

 his relations with the Prophet Muhammad. XlXth cent. 



Chinese MSS.—l. A volume (keuen 19,789-19,790) of the 

 Yung-lo ta teen, or " Great Standard of the Emperor Yung- 

 lo," an encyclopaedia comprising 22,877 keuen, with an index 

 of 60 keuen, in 11,100 volumes, the whole of which was com- 

 piled by a special commission and collated by Ch'in E-kin^ 

 Wang Ta-jin, etc. This volume was saved from the burning 

 Han-lin College during the siege of the Legations at Peking,; 

 1900. [1562-1567.] 



2. Portraits and Aphorisms of the Eighteen Lohans or 

 immediate disciples of Buddha. A beautiful specimen of 

 painting and calligraphy. XVIIth — XVIIIth cent. 



Coptic MSS. — 1. Numerous fragments of an exceptionally 

 fine papyrus volume, containing a version of Ecclesiasticus 

 and cognate literature, in the Sahidic dialect. Vl-VIIth 

 cent. 



2. Two collections of miscellaneous fragments. 



Hebrew MSS. — 1. Kab Po'olim. A Hebrew grammar, by 

 Joseph Zark. a.d. 1483. A fine copy. 



2. The commentary of Solomon Yishaki on the Talmudical 

 tractates Berakhoth and Shabbath. Written on vellum. 

 XVth cent. 



3. One of the MSS. collated by Dr. Kennicott for his 

 edition of the Old Testament, and numbered by him 144 ;, 

 with a letter from Dr. Kennicott and his autograph descrip- 

 tion of the MS. Vellum. XVIth cent. 



4. Records of the Jewish community in Lugo for the years 

 1621-1630. Vellum. 



5. Services for the Jewish Festivals according to the rite 

 of Corfu. XVIIIth cent. 



6. Services (Musaf and Ne'ilah) for the Day of Atonement, 

 according to the rite of Corfu. XVIIIth cent. 



7. Kinoth, or Lamentations, in an Italian dialect and 

 Greek, transliterated into Hebrew characters. For use on the 

 Fast of the Ninth of Ab, according to the rite of Corfu. 

 XVIIth cent. 



Hebrew Printed Boohs. — 1. She'erith Joseph. Talmudical 

 methodology, by Joseph b. Solomon ben Verga. Constantinople, 

 1554, 8°. The Editio Princeps of this work. 



