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3. A collection of Church Canons and Homilies bearing 

 on ecclesiastical observances. XlVth-XVth cent. 



4. The Miracles of the Virgin Mary. XYIIth-XVIIIth 

 •cent. 



Pali MS. — 1. The Chariya-pitaka of the Khuddaka- 

 nikaya, with the commentary of Dhammapala. In Burmese 

 script. A.D. 1764. 



Persian MSS. — 1. Sirat al-nabi, a Persian version of the 

 Life of Muhammad of Ibn Ishak. This translation was made 

 by order of the Salgharl Atabak MuzafFar al-DTn Sa'd b. 

 ZangT, who reigned A.H. 591-623. A.H. 677 (a.d. 1278). Quite 

 unique so far as is known. 



2. Marzuban-namah, a book of tales originally composed 

 in Pahlavi by the Ispahbad Marzuban b. Rustam (IVth cent. 

 A.H.), rewritten in literary Persian by Sa'd al-Varavini 

 between 607 and 612 a.h. a.h. 762 (a.d. 1361). 



3. Muslik al-'arifln, a treatise on asceticism by Muhammad 

 b. As'ad al-Bukhari, Composed about a.h. 700. XlVth cent. 

 Only one other MS. known. 



4. Tarikh i RashidT, the autobiographical memoirs of 

 MTrza Haidar Dughlat (a.h. 905-953). XVIIth and XTXth 

 cent. 



5. Tazkirah i Muklm-KhanT, a history of the Uzbeg rulers 

 of Turkistan down to a.h. 1116 (a.d. 1704), by Muhammad 

 Yusuf b. Khwajah Baka. XlXth cent. 



Turldsh MSS. — 1. A Turkish metrical version of the 

 Gulshan i raz, a Persian mystical poem by Mahmiid Shabistarl 

 (died A.H. 720). By Alwan ShlrazI, a contemporary of Sultan 

 Murad II. (reigned A.H. 824-855). a.h. 891 (a.d. 1486). 



2. Manakib i savakib, lives of Maulana Jalal al-Din RumT, 

 his family, friends, and successors, by Shams al-DTn AflakT, 

 composed about a.h. 750. Translated from the Persian by 

 DarvTsh Mahmud Masnavi-khwan in A.H. 998. XVIIth cent. 



Robert K. Douglas. 



