ACCOUNTS, &C., or THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I3 



Lives of the Learned Men of Yemen, abridged from Al-Jauadi, and continued to 

 A.H. 854, by Ibu Al-Ahdal. Arabic, a.it. 1642. Quarto. 



Takwim al-Sihliah, a medical work of Ibn Butlan, in Arabic; written for al-Malik 

 Al-Zahir, Sultan of Aleppo, a.d. 1213. Folio. 



A Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, by Ibn al-Kuff. Arabic; a.d 1385 

 Folio. 



A volume of the Tadklrah of al-Safadi, in Arabic ; written in the Au<hoi''s life-time - 

 14th centur3\ Quarto. 



Zafar- Naniah, a History of Timur, by Sharaf-uddin Yazdi, Persian ; with illuminated 

 borders and miniatures, a.d. 1552. Folio. 



Nafahat al-Uns, Lives of the celebrated Sufis by Jarai. Persian; with miniatures. 

 Written for the Emperor Alcbar. a.d. 1603. Folio. 



Kulliyyat, or complete works of Sa'di. Persian. With illuminated borders and minia- 

 tures; 15 th century. Folio. 



Mahbub ul-Kuliib, a large collection of Tales, by Barkhurdar Turkoman, with nume- 

 rous miniatures ; Persian. A.D. 1806. Folio. 



Biographical notices on Fath AH Shah, his sons and grandchildren, by Fazl-ullah of 

 Shiraz. Persian; 19th century. Octavo. 



The Diwan of .Nevai or Mir AH Shir, in Oriental Turkish, written apparently in the 

 author's lifetime, i.e., about the close of the I5th century. Small Quarto. This volume 

 is a masterpiece of Persian penmansliip, richly ornamented with illuminated headino-s of 

 exquisite taste and finish. 



A large Album, containing calligraphic specimens of Mir AH, a celebrated Persian 

 penman of the 17th century and of some of his pupils, as well as a curious collection of 

 Indian and Persian miniatures. Folio. 



In addition to the above collection, the following MSS. deserve a special notice. 



The Pentateuch with a grammatical Introduction and copious Masora. Hebrew. 

 Written in Yemen, a.d. 1493. Quarto. 



Ets Chaiyim and some other Karaite works. Hebrew, a.d. 1543. Quarto. 



MIdrashIm of Ephralm Ben Gershon, a Jewish physician of Neoroponte. Hebreio. 

 Wx'Itten A.D. 1455 ; the author's autograph. Quarto. 



Kitab Jazlrat al-Arab, a geographical account of Arabia, by Al-Hasan Al-Hamadani, 

 Arabic. A.D. 1502. Quarto. Preseuted by Captain S. B. Miles, British Resident in 

 Mascat. 



Al-Iklil, a history of Yemen, by al-Hasan al-Hamadanl. Arabic, a.d. 1676. 

 Quarto. Presented by the same. 



Two Japanese MSS., treating of insects, fishes, and other natural objects, with 

 drawings. Presented by Ernest Satow, Esq.. Japanese Secretary to Her Majesty's 

 Legation in Japan. 



Transcriptions and explanations of old Japanese seals. Presented by Mr. Nlnao-awa, 

 a Japanese antiquary residing In Yeddo. 



Rubbings of two tumular Inscriptions in the Mausoleum of the ancient Sultans of 

 Morocco at Shellah, near Rabat, dated A.n. 706 and 750. (a.d. 1306 and 1349.) Pre- 

 sented by John Frost, Esq., Her Majesty's Vice Consul in Rabat. 



Dlctlonnaire Tamoul-Frangals et Fran9ais-Tamoul, par le Rev. Pere Constant Joseph 

 BeschI; 1744. (Autograph.) Quarto. 



Ch. liieu. 



Department of Oriental Antiquities. 



I. — Arrangemeyits. 



In the Egyptian division the following arrangements have been made in the galleries. 



A small iiawk, lion, and the horn of an altar, from the neighbourhood of the great 

 Sphinx, have been placed under glass for better preservation. 



A fragment of an Egyptian sarcophagus has been mounted on a stone plinth. 



Part of the shaft of a column Avith the name of Psammetlchus I., has been mounted on 

 a stone plinth. 



Six Egyptian tablets have been framed, glazed, and incorporated in the collections. 



A small lion has been mounted on a stone plinth. 



Two large Egyptian heads have been repaired and mounted on stone plinths. 



A figure has been mounted on a stone plinth. 



A small head from a statue has been mounted on a stone plinth. 



A statue has been repaired and mounted on a stone plinth. 



A marble female head from a statue of Grajco-Egyptian workmanship, and of the 

 Ptolemaic period, has been mounted on a moulded plinth. 



Thi-ee seated figures have been repaired and mounted on plinths. 



An Egyptian inscription of one of the disk -worsiilpplng monai'chs who reigned at the 

 close of the 18th Dynasty, has been mounted on stone plinths. 



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