12 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Correspondence of Bishop Percy with William Shenstone, the poet, and Dr. Farmer 

 in the years 1757-1773. 



Collections of William Gwavas relating to the Cornish language, early in the 18tli 

 century. Presented by the Rev. W. W. Wingfield, of Gulval Vicarage, Penzance. 



A large collection of Court-rolls, Bailiffs' Accounts, Charters, and other documents, 

 relating to the family of Scrope, and the Manor of Castle Combe in Wiltshire; includino- 

 a Memorandum-book of AYilliam Botoner of Worcester, bailiff for the family of Fastolf^ 

 and letters and papers connected with Sir John Fastolf. Presented by G. Poulett 

 Scrope, Esq., and Edwai-d Chaddock Lowndes, Esq. 



Materials pre])ared by the late Mr. John Bruce, r.s.A., for a chronological list of 

 English State Papers, in the Britisli Museum, and in certain printed publications ; with 

 notices of manuscript works on historical and antiquarian subjects, and of Eno-Hsh 

 biography ; forming eight volumes, in folio. Presented by W. J. Thoms, Esq., in the 

 name of Mr. Bruce's representatives. 



Correspondence of Emanuel Mendez da Costa, f.r.s., author of ''A Natural History 

 of Fossils," with English and Foreign Naturalists, in the years 1737-1787. In 11 

 volumes. Letters to Aylmer Bourke Lambert, author of " A Description of the Genus 

 Pinus," 1791-1808. A volume of miscellaneous letters of naturalists, from 1783 to 1829; 

 and a French Dictionary of Natural History. Presented by the Right Honourable the 

 Earl of Derby. 



£dw. A. Bond. 



Oeiental Manuscripts. 



I. — Acquisitions. 



23 Manuscripts have been added to the Collection, viz. : 21 by purchase and 2 by 

 donation, as follows : — 



Arabic ---------6 



Turkish -_----__5 



Hebrew __--____4 



Pali-Burmese _----__3 



Pali-Cingalese -_-----! 



Pali- Siamese --------1 



Grantha __-----_i 



Coptic --------- 1 



Chinese -------_i 



23 



The following deserve a special notice : — 



Selim-ndmeh, a history of Sultan Selim in Turkish verse, A.H. 972 (a.D. 1564.) 



Jehan-numa, a Turkish work on Geography, with maps. 



An Arabic work on Botany. 



An Itinerary to Mecca in Arabic, A.H. 875 (a.d. 1470). 



A Commentary on the oral traditions of Mohammed, collected by Al-Suyuti. 



The Michlol of David KImchi and the Baal Kanaphayim, two works on Hebrew 

 Grammar and Lexicology ; 14th century. 



Ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes ; 14th century. 



Rabbi Saadiah's Arabic version of the Pentateuch: 15th century.^ 



Dhammapadiim, a Buddhistic work in Pali, Burmese character, written on palm leaves, 

 and enclosed in richly carved ivory covers. 



A Coptic papyrus of the 8th century. 



Fac-siralles of a Buddhist inscription engraved In six different characters on a gateway 

 at Kevz-Yung-Kwan, near the Chinese wall, a.d. 1345. 



Sara-Sangaha, a Buddhist work in Pali, finely written on palm leaves in the Siamese 

 character. 



A letter written by the Pontiff of Burmah to the Buddhist clergy of Ceylon, a.d. 

 1802. Pali-Cingalese. 



The last two manuscripts have been presented by Robert C. Childers, Esq. 



II. — Arrmigement and Cataloguing. 



The Oriental Manuscripts 344-479, and 829-1,029, belonging principally to the 

 Hamilton, Tatlam, Relchardt, and Slebold Collections, have been labelled, bound, and 

 placed on the shelves. 



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