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



The Arabic version of the materia medica of Dioscorides, Books III. and IV. ; with 

 coloured drawings of plants; A,H. 735 (a.d. 1334). 



Al Sami fil-Asami, a classified Arabic vocabulary explained in Persian by al-Maidani 

 (died A.H. 518;; a.h. 599 (a.d. 1203). 



History of Shah 'Abbas II., brought down to a.h. 1074, by Tahir Vahld ; Persian ; 

 17th century. 



Ma'asir i Sultaniy yah, a history of Path 'Ali Shah, brought down to a.h. 1229, by 

 'Abd-urrazzak B. Najafkuli (the original of Brydge's Dynasty of the Kajars) • a h 

 1236 (ad. 1821). 



1 arikh Muhammadsliahi, a general history of India compiled a.h. 1154 by Khushhal 

 Chand. 



The military regulations of Tipu Sultan, drawn up a.h. 1197 by Zain ul-'AbidIn • 

 Persian with English translation. 



Kariraa, or the Pand-namah ascribed to Sa'dl, written In gold throughout by an 

 Indian callegrapher, with miniatures. Large folio. 



Lain Majnun, a Masnavi by iMaktabi, composed a.h. 875. 



Khnsrau Shlrln, a Masnavi by Ja'far, i.e., Ja'far Beg A'saf Khan, who died a.h. 1021. 



Mumtaz ul-Arasal, a collection of Hindustani proverbs with stories accountino- for their 

 origin, by Falz AH 'Khan, Nawwab of Jhajjar, 3 vol. 



A history of the descendants of Chingizkhan, written a.h. 908 for Shaibani Khan the 

 Uzbek, in Eastern Turkish, with miniaiures ; 16th century. 



Humai Jami' uttevarTkh, a general history compiled a.h. 985 by Muhammed Za'Tm 

 Turkish. 



Tazkirat ul-Auliya, stories of saints, translated from the Persian of Abul-lals Samar- 

 kand!, Turkish: A.H. 985 (a.d. 1577). 



Kashahat 'Ain ul-Hayat, lives of the Sheikhs of the Nakshabandi order, translated 

 A.H. 993 from the Persian of 'Ali SaG I>y Muhammad Ma'ruf 'Abbasi, Turkish ; 17th 

 century. 



Khusrau ShTrTn, a Turkish Masnavi by Sheikhi; a.h. 890 (a.d. 1485). 



The tale of Farrukhruz, translated from the Persian of Faramurz B. Khudad al-Arjanl 

 Turkish; with miniatures ; 16th century. 



Sutpadeyya Nissayo, Pali text with Burmese interpretation, A.D. 1807. 



KankhavItaranT, a commentary upon Bhikkhu-Patimokkha, Pali text with Burmese 

 interpretation, a.d. 1840. 



Khuddasikkha, from the Vinayapitaka, Pali text with Burmese intei'pretation a d 

 1829. 



Abhldlianappadlplka, a Pali dictionary by Mogallana, Pali text with Burmese 

 interpretation, a.d. 1768. 



Butsarane, Dahamsarane, and Saugasarane, or the three refuges, a Buddhistic work • 

 Cingalese. 



Dalada-Sirita, the legend of Buddha's tooth, and Revata's comment on a Pali verse- 

 two Cingalese MSS. presented by Col. J. Hornby Buller, 



Parlvaro, the fifth book of Vinayapitaka, Pali in the Burmese character. Presented 

 by Captain R. C. Temple. 



The expedition of 'All against Ras al Ghul, a popular tale, Arabic. Presented by 

 Sir Charles A. Murray. 



A Lolo poem in 73 folios, ])robably about a.d. 1836, and a MS. In the writing of a 

 Shan tribe known to the Chinese as Shuichia, partly pictorial ; both presented by 

 Fred. S. A. Bourne, Esq., Her Majesty's consular agent at Chunking, China. 



The number of Oriental MSS. consulted by readers m the year was 1,912. The 

 number of visits paid by readers for the purpose of consulting Oi'iental MSS. was 766 

 viz., 261 in the Students' Room and 505 In the Reading Room. 



Ch. Rieu. 



Department of Pkints and Draavings. 



I.— Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



A small selection of prints and drawings, comprising examples of the Italian, German, 

 Dutch and Flemish, French, and English Schools, was placed en view in the new Print 

 Room on the upper floor, from June to September. 



A historical series of woodcuts, engravings in line and stipple, etchings, mezzotints, and 

 lithographs, numbering 667 examples, has been selected and prepared for exhibition 

 in the second northern gallery, in lieu of the series of reproductions previously 

 exhibited there. 



The incorporation into a single alphabetical series of all the English drawings has been 

 completed. 



The <:eneral collection of English etchings and lithographs has been re-arranged, the 

 etchings by amateurs being incorporated with those by artists in a single alphabetical 

 series, and the lithographs taken out and formed Into a distinct collection. The etchings 

 are now contained in twenty portfolios and forty-five solander cases, and the lithographs 

 in three portfolios and four solander cases. 



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