ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE URITISH MUSEUM. 21 



Divan ofKasim ul-Anvar (died a.h. 837) ; A.H. 857 (a.d. 1453. 



Divans of Maghribi (died a.h, 809) and of Shams Mashriki ; a.h. 953 (a.d. 1546). 



Divan of 'Abd ul-Vasi ' Jabali (died A.H. 555) ; a.h. 1016 (a.d. 1607). 



Divan of ZahTr Fariyabi (died a.h. 598), with a prose preface; a.h. 873 (a.d. 1469). 



Divan of Nasir i Khusrau (died A.H. 481) with his autobiography; A.H. 1296. 



Compositions in prose and verse of Fazl-ullah KazvTnl, author of the Tarikh al-Mu'ajjam; 

 14th century. 



Destur ul-Katib, or manual of the secretary, by Muhammad B. Hindushah Nakhjuvani; 

 A.H. 816 (a.d. 1413). 



Divan of Mukhtari (died A.H. 554) ; ah. 1287. 



Divan of Khwaju Kirmani (died a.h. 746) ; 14th century. 



Nizhad Namah, a history of dynasties Avho traced their origin tu the ancient kings of 

 Pei'sia, by Riza Kuli Khan, 19th century. 



Notices of Persian poets of the classical period, with copious extracts, compiled bv 

 Navai Kashani about a.h. 1250 Folio. 



Divan of 'AtTki Tabrlzi (died a.h. 744); a.h. 841 (a.d. 1437). Folio. 



Eauzat ul-Safaviyyah, a history of the .Salavi dynasty from its origin to a.h. 1042 by 

 Mirza Beg Janabadi; a.h. 1052 (a.d. 1643). 



Bazm-Arai, notices of Persian poets, ancient and modern, compiled A.H. 1000 at the 

 Court of Akbar by Sayyid 'Ali B. Mahmiid ; 17th century. Folio. 



AnJLimani Khakan, notices of poets who flourished in the reign of Path Ali Shah, com- 

 piled A.H. 1234 by Muhammad Fazil Ravi. Folio. 



A history of the city of Kum from the Muslim conquest to A.H. 378 ; translated from 

 the Arabic of Hasan B. Muhammad alKummi; Persian, 16th century. 



Majalis un-Nafa'is, notices of Persian poets of the ninth century of the Hijrah, trans- 

 lated from the Turki of Mir 'All Shir by Shah 'Ali; Persian, 1 7th century. 



Khairul-Bayan, notices of Persian poets, ancient and modern, compiled a.h. 1017-1036 

 by Mir Husain B. Malik Ghiyas-uddin STstani ; a.h. 1041 (a.d. 1631). 



Zloat ul-Mada'ih, notices of Persian poets at the Court of Fath 'Ali Shrdi by Muhammad 

 Sadik Huma, c. A.H. 1220. 



Shadd ul-Izar, notices of holy and learned men whose tombs are found in Shlraz, com- 

 piled A.H. 791 by Abul-Kasim Junaid Shirazi ; Arabic, 



The third book of the Canon of Avicenna ; A.H. 525 (a.d. 131). 



The Turki Divan ot Husaini, i.e. Shah Sultan Husain Baikara (died a.h. 911), 

 with an interlinear Persian translation, written for Shah Sultan Husain Safavi, c. a.h. 

 1120. 



The Turki Divan of Khata'i, i.e. Shah Isma'Tl, the founder of the Safavi dynasty 

 (died A.H. 930) ; 17th century. 



Twenty-seven MSS. purchased in India for the Museum by Mr. Cecil Bendall include 

 two MSS. from Nepaul, containing rare works of the Northern Buddhists, viz., Karanda- 

 vyuha, dated 316 of the Nepaulese Era (a.d. 1196), and Pancharaksha, of the 11th 

 or 12th century, eleven MSS. containing Jaina works, acquired chiefly in Jeypore, and 

 thirteen MSS. coming from Benares, containing for the most part works of the Vedanta 

 Sch(Jol. 



Apart from the above collections the most noteworthy acquisitions are — 



A commentary on the Samaritan Pentateuch, Arabic ; 15th century. 



A history of the Patriarchs and of Moses according to the Samaritan tradition, Arabic ; 

 18th century. 



A collection of Coptic fragments, mostly vellum, ranging from the tenth century 

 downward ; brought from Egypt by Henry Wallis, Esq. 



The four Gospels in Coptic, with illuminated initials, and marginal ornaments; 13th 

 century. From the convent of St. Anthony in the Egyptian deserL 



The four Gospels in Arabic, A. iVlartyrum 981 (a.d. 1264), From the same 

 convent. 



The Epistles and Acts In Arabic ; 13th century. From the same convent. 



A Jacobite lectionary with miniatures and ornamental designs, Syriac ; vellum, 12th 

 century. 



Liber Splendorum, the Syriac grammar of Gregory Barhebraeus ; a. Gr. 1643 (a.d. 

 1332). 



Discourses of Gabriel Katraya on the services of Sundays and Feast-days, Syriac ; 

 A.Gr. 1579 ((a.d. 1268). 



'Ihe Coran written in a Cufic character leaning to Maskhi, apparently of the 9th or 

 10th century; paper. 



The Kashshaf, a commentary upon the Coran by Zamakhshari ; 16tli century. 



Al-A thar al-Bakiyah, the chronological work of al-BTriini : 1 7th century. 



History of Yemen from A.H. 199 to A.H. 550 by '(Jmdrat al-Yamani (died A.H. 569), 

 bound up Avith Bughyat al-Mustafid, a history of ZabTd by 'Abd al-llahman Ibn Daiba' 

 (died A.H. 944.) 



Rakm al-Hulal, a general history treating especially of the Arab dynasties of Spain, 

 brought down to a.h. 763, by Lisan al-DTn ibn al-Khatlb (died a.h. 776) ; 17th century. 



Life of Mansfir-billah al-Kasim, Zaidl Imam of Yemen, who reigned a.h. 1016-1029, 

 by Mutahhar al-HadawI ; a.h. 1064 (a.d. 1654). 



The commentary of Naslr-uddlu Tusi on the Isharat of Avicenna, a.h. 700 (a.d, 

 1300). 



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