4Q . ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



2. A work on gardening, prepared by a Court official at 

 the command of the Emperor K'ien-lung (a.d. 1736-1795). 

 Written in black characters on a gold ground, a.d. 1738. 



3. A large collection of documents and literary fragments 

 of about the Vlllth century, discovered on the sites of 

 Buddhist culture in Turkestan, &c. Comprising (1) docu- 

 ments in Chinese ; (2) documents and literary fragments 

 written in a Brahmi script, in an unknown language of 

 Central Asia ; (3) fragments of works of Buddhist literature 

 in Sanskrit ; (4) Persian legal documents, fragmentary, 

 probably the earliest specimens of Persian writing known. 



CJdnese Printed Booh, &c, — 1. A facsimile of a MS. work 

 by the celebrated calligrapiiist Wang He-chih. (a.d. 321- 

 379.) 



2. A Chinese Bank-note issued during the reign of the 

 Emperor Hung-wu (a.d. 1368-1398), lately found in the 

 interior of a statue of Buddha at Peking. 



Coptic MS. — 1. A papyrus document from the Cartulary 

 of the monastery of St. Phoebammon at Thebes, recording 

 litigation over the division of an estate and the final settle- 

 ment thereof. 7 feet 8 inches in length, with over 100 lines 

 of text. Written about 750 a.d. 



Hebrew MSS. — 1. A commentary on the Book of Job, by 

 Abba Marl b. Aligdor. XVth cent. 



2. A translation by Eli Habillo of the philosophical works 

 of Johannes Versor. A.D. 1590. 



3. Services for the New Year's Day and the Day of 

 Atonement. Rite of Algiers. XVI-XVIIth cent. 



4. A fine copy of the Samaritan recension of the Hebrew 

 Pentateuch, a.d. 1339-40. 



Persian MSS. — 1. The tenth book (treating of drugs and 

 their preparation) of the Zakhirah i KhwarazmshahT, a system 

 of medicine by Saiyid Isma'll JurjanT (died A.H. 531). A.H. 

 612 (A.D. 1215). 



2. Book i. of the Masnavi i ma'navi, the great mystic poem 

 of Maulana Rumi (died A.H. 676). The text of this MS. 

 shews numerous alterations throughout in a later hand, 

 bringing it into agreement with that appearing in more 

 modern copies. Xlll-XIVth cent. 



3. The Divans, or poetical works, of Kavami and NajashT, 

 poets apparently of the sixth century of the Hegira. A.H. 

 732 (a.d. 1332). Quite unique and almost unknown. 



4. A collection of religious books of the Hurufi sect. 

 A.H. 999—1163 (a.d. 1590—1750). 



5. A Persian version of the Gospels. From the tenour of 

 the translator's preface it appears most probable that the 



