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description of the Prophet's rehgious practices, habits, personal appear- 

 ance, clothing, domestic affairs, etc., by Ibn Kaiyim al-Jauziyah, Vol. 1 

 (of three) ; A.H. 776. Al-Isharah ila'Ilm al-'Ibarah, a manual of dream- 

 interpretation, by Muhammad b. Ahmad al-Sahml; A.H. 855. A.- 

 Muktarah, a commentary by Muzaffar b. 'Abd AUah al-Azdi on al-Irshad 

 fi Usui al-I'tikad, a doctrinal work by 'Abd ai-Mahk b. 'Abd Allah al- 

 Juwaini, Maghribi script A.H. 995. Kitaba 1-Maudii'at, studies in 

 the apocrjrphal Traditions, by Ibn al-Jauzi. The latter part of vol. 1, 

 A.H. 599. Sharh Masa'il Hunain, a commentary on the medical Questions 

 of Hunain b. Ishak, by 'Abd al-Rahman Ibn abi Sadik, Pt. 1, 13th-14th 

 century. Al-Adwiyat al-Mufradah, a work on simple medicines, by 

 Abu Bakr Hamid b. Samhun, Pt. 2, 13th century. Al-Adwiyat 

 al-Mufradah, another treatise on simple medicines, by Ibn al-Ash'ath, 

 Pt. 1 ; 13th-14th century. Diya al-Hulum, an abridgment of Nashwan b. 

 Sa'id's dictionary Shams al-'Ulum, Pt. 2, copied in A.H. 639 at San'a'. 



Arabic and Turkish MS. : An Arabic-Turkish dictionary, arranged 

 firstly in alphabetical order and secondly according to subjects ; in the 

 handwriting of Hasan b. Hajji Hamzah (possibly the author), A.H. 807. 



Chinese IIS. : A Gazetteer of Wei-hai-wei, in the province of Shantung ; 

 compiled under the direction of Wang Shih-jen; in 10 parts (4 vols.). 

 A.D. 1777, presented by Mr. C. F. Hogg. 



Ethiopia MS. : The Minor Prophets in Ethiopic, followed by 

 Ankasa Amin, a polemic against Islam, veUum, 17th century. 



Hebrew MS. : A Jewish Ritual for the whole year, according to the 

 use of Spain, with a commentary by Joseph ben Saddik ; vellum, with some 

 illuminations in Spanish-Moorish style, 15th century. 



Oriya MS. : Radha-krishna-keH-katha, an Oriya poem on the legends 

 of Krishna and Radha, deUcately incised on 20 sheets of palm-leaf, with 

 illustrations on each of them, 16th century, 



Persian MS. : A number of fragments of the Garshasp-namah, 14th 

 century. 



Prints and Drawings. 



John Downman : five albums containing 159 portrait drawings ; 

 from a collection put together and annotated by the artist towards the 

 end of his fife. William Hogarth : portrait study for the etching of 

 John Wilkes. John Smith (" Warwick Smith ") : forty-six water- 

 colours ; from the Earl of Warwick collection. William Blake : Europe, 

 a series of eleven proofs in monochrome. J. H. Fragonard : album of 

 71 drawings, presented by Mrs. Spencer Whatley. 



The following drawings from the Oppenheimer collection, the first three 

 being presented by the National Art-Collections Fund : Sir Anthony 

 Vandyck ; Landscape, water-colour. Fra Filippo Lippi : The Crucifixion. 

 Cima da Conegliano : Head of St. Jerome. Paris Bordone : Study of a 

 man in armour. Jacopo Pontormo : sheet of figure studies. Timoteo 

 Viti : Christ on the Cross. G. B. Tiepolo : Farm-yard gate. Nicolas 

 Neufchatel (called Lucidel) : Portrait of a bearded man. 



Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities. 



A large collection of pottery, terracotta figurines, bronzes, seals and 

 amulets, mainly from Persia, varying in date from before 3000 B.C., 



