ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 11 



The third and last Volume of the Syriac Catalogue has been published. It contains 

 the remaining classes, viz., History, Lives of Saints, and Science, two Appendices, a 

 Preface to the whole work, several Indices extending to the entire Syriac Collection, and 

 twenty plates of lithographed fac-similes. 



The above plates (250 impressions of each) have been examined and revised. 



Some fragments of Syriac, Coptic, and Arabic Manuscripts, lately brought from the 

 Syrian Monastery of Nitria, have been sorted. Some Syriac leaves have been identified 

 and restored to their original places in five previously acquired Syriac Manuscripts. 



Detailed descriptions have been prepared of 326 Manuscripts for the Persian Cataloo'ue. 

 They belong to the class of History, which is now completed, to that of Biography and 

 to the Miscellaneous Class. 



175 Manuscripts have been described in full for the Ethiopic Catalogue. 



II. — Acquisitions. 



Sixty-three Manuscript Volumes have been added to the Oriental Collection during 

 the year, viz., 44 by purchase, and 19 by donation. 



They are under the following Classes : 



Japanese _----__ -28 



Persian ------- -7 



Sanscrit -------_5 



Pali 5 



Hebrew --------3 



Arabic ---------3 



Coptic ---------3 



Cingalese ----- _--2 



Oriya ---------2 



Syriac --------- 



Mendai'tic -------- 



Turkish ------ 



Gujrati --------- 



Chinese ---_-__- 



Total - - - 63 



The following are the most remarkable : 



A poetical account of the Chinese conquest of Nepaul in a.d. 1790, written by the 

 Emperor of China ; a folio volume enclosed in curiously carved wooden covers, from the 

 Summer Palace, near Peking. The entire text is embroidered in i-ed silk on blue ground, 

 it is said, by the ladies of the Imperial family. 



The Sidra Rabba, also known as Liber Adami, the sacred book of the Mendai'tes, or 

 so-called Christians of S. John. Presented by Earl Granville. 



A collection of Legends relating to the incarnations of Buddha, transcribed from a 

 number of palm-leaf manuscripts in Burmah ; in the Pali language and Burmese cha- 

 racter. A thick quarto. 



The Anaphoras of the Coptic Chiirch, in Coptic, with Arabic version, written appa- 

 rently in the 13th century. Quarto. 



Fragments of Syriac, Coptic, and Arabic manuscripts from the Syrian Convent of 

 Nitria, Egypt. Presented by the Rev. Greville J. Chester. 



A Pali grammar and two Buddhistic Avorks, viz., Vessantara Jataka and Mahavessantara- 

 -Jataka, in the Pali language and Cambodgian character, written on palm leaves, with 

 miniatures ; enclosed in lacquered boards inlaid with mother-of-pearl. 



Four Persian versions of the legend of Rama, two in prose and two in verse. Jnana- 

 Bhaskara, a medical work in Sanscrit. Presented by A. W. Franks, Esq. 



Amara-Kosha, a Sanscrit Glossary, with explanations in Oriya. 



Phra-Maha-Wak, a work on the laws which govern the Buddhist priesthood, in 21 

 parts, on palm leaves ; Pali in the Burmese character. Presented by L. B. Bowring, 

 Esq. 



A Commentary on the Prophets and Psalms, by Aaron Ha-Rishon, the Macedonian ; 

 Hebrew, dated a.d. 1436. Large quarto. 



Sepher Ha-Aruch, a Hebrew Dictionary by Shabtai Ben Meir; two large folios of 

 the 14th century. 



A history of the Micados in Japanese ; 13 volumes, enclosed in a box of lacquered 

 ■wood. This work, it is said, was written for private use and has never been printed. 



Falaknaz-Namah, a tale in Persian verse, with miniatures; written a.ii. 1257 (a.d. 

 1841). 



Ch. Rieu. 



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