38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The MSS. are :— 



Arabic ------ 70 



Arabic and Persian - - - - 1 



Armenian ------ 2 



Burmese ------ 7 



Central Asian ----- 11 



Chinese ------ 13 



Coptic ------ 1 



Ethiopic ------ 1 



Hebrew (with 1 Samaritan) 7 - - 18 



Hindustani - - _ - _ 1 



Marathi ------ 1 



Pali - - 1 



Pali and Burmese - - - - 20 



Pali and Sinhalese - - - - 1 



Persian ------ 20 



Persian and Kurdish - - - 1 



Persian and Turkish _ _ - 1 



Sanskrit ------ 2 



Syriac ------ 1 



Telugu ------ 1 



Turkish 15 



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The most important acquisitions are : — 



Arabic MSS. — 1. Ta'rikh Maiyafarikm, a history of the 

 city of Maiyafarikm, composed in A.H. 560 by Ibn al-Azrak. 

 Xll-XIIIth cent. 



2. — (1.) Ruh al-'arifln, a collection of Traditions by the 

 Caliph al-Nasir li-Din lllah, composed before A.H. 612. 

 (2) FutOh al-wakt, a series of seventy Traditions related by 

 the same Caliph and collected with a commentary b}' 'Abd 

 al-Latlf al-Baghdadljin A.H. 614. Xlllth cent, (^apparently 

 contemporary). Quite unique. 



3. Al-Mufassal fi al-nahw, the treatise on Arabic grammar 

 of al-Zamakhsharl (died A.H. 538). With marginal glosses 

 added in a.h. 788 by Ahmad b. Muhammad al-Khuwarazmi. 

 A.H. 659 (A.D. 1261). 



4. Vol. 6 of al-Multakat, a collection of legal decisions 

 according to the Hanafi School, by Muhammad b. Yusuf al- 

 Samarkandi (died a.h. 556). Xlllth cent. Quite unique. 



5. Tankih al-tahklk, a series of questions upon points of 

 jurisprudence whereon the four orthodox Schools differ, 



