40 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 



12. Two Hurufi works : — (i) Verses by Maulana Eumf, 

 with Turkish commentary by Salahi Efendi. (ii) Ashab i 

 Badr, a poem by the latter. XlXth cent, (early). 



13. 'Arsh-namah. A Hurufi poem. a.d. 1857. 



Pushtu MS. — 1. Makhzan al-islam. A treatise on the 

 orthodox Muhammadan faith, by Akhun Darwezah. XVIIth- 

 XVIIIth cent. 



Spanish MS. — 1. The Book of Esther, on vellum, in scroll 

 form. XVIIIth cent. 



Syriac MS. — 1. Psalter, with Masorah and introduction. 

 A.D. 1589. 



Turkish MSS. — 1. Yiisuf u Zulaikha. A romance in verse, 

 by Sharifi, a courtier of the Sultans Sulaiman i, Salim ii, and 

 Murad ii. Dedicated to Sultan Murad, and composed about 

 A.H. 986. Late XVIth cent. 



2. Khamsah i 'Ata'i. Five romances in verse by 'Ata'i, 

 with a number of minor poems. A.D. 1755. 



3. Works of Muhammad Raghib Pasha (died A.D. 1762), 

 viz. : — (i) a history of the negotiations between the Sultan 

 of Turkey and Nadir Shah of Persia, conducted by the 

 author in A.H. 1149 ; (ii) letters and official writings of 

 Eaghib Pasha, prefaced by a biography of the author by 

 Ahmad Rasmi ; (iii) poetical worjks of Raghib Pasha. 

 XVIIIth cent. . , 



4. Writings of the Hurufi sect : — (i) verses of Niyazi 

 Misri, with commentary ; (ii) Dava'ir i sab'ah, or " The 

 Seven Circles " ; (iii) Nuktat al-bayan ; (iv) Akhirat-namah 

 and 'Ishk-namah, by 'Abd al-Majid b. Firishtah 'Izz al-Din ; 

 (v) Abyat i Abdal Baba ; (vi) a religious Masnavi; (vii) the 

 DTwan or poetical works of 'Arshi Baba. XIX th cent. 



Robert K. Douglas. 



