-,8 ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRTTISH MUSEUM. 



A Descriptive List of all the Karaite MSS. in the Museum Collection has been com- 



A Descriptive List of all the Hebrew MSS. included in the early collections and in 

 the Additional Series up to Add. 19,604 has been prepared. 



Ten Sanscrit MSS. from Nepal have been described, as well as twelve Pali MSS* 

 acquired during the year. 



The paper MSS. of the Phayre collection have been prepared for the binder. 



One hundred and. twenty-one recently acquired MSS. have been folio'd, labelled, 

 bound and placed on the shelves. 



IL — Acquisitions. 



The number of MSS. acquired during the year was 110, viz., 104 by purchase and 

 6 by donation, as follows : — 



Arabic ---------42 



Persian - - - - - - - -31 



Pali - - - 12 



Sanscrit - - - - - - - -11 



Coptic ---------4 



Hebrew ,__-----2 



Cingalese --------2 



Syriac ---------1 



Chinese ._--_---l 



Siamese --------I 



Burmese _-__----l 



Kawi ---------1 



Shan - . - 1 



Total - - - 110 



Twenty-five Arabic and Persian MSS. were secured for the Museum by Sidney 

 Churchill, Esq., Persian Secretary to the British Mission in Teheran. The most impor- 

 tant are — 



Maikhanah, a voluminous anthology, with lives of poets, compiled A.H. 1040 by Mulla 

 Muhammad Sufi Mazenderani, Arabic and Persian ; 17th century. 



The Goran of the Babis in Arabic. 



The rare Divan of Arshad, a Persian poet who lived in Herat about A.n. 1080 ; 

 17th century. 



Saflnah 1 Mahmud, a Persian anthology by Prince Mahmud Kajar, a son of Fath Ali 

 Shah. 



Bayan i Mahmud, notices of contemporary poets by the same. 



Gulshau i Mahmud, a biography of the sons of Fath Ali Shah, with specimens of their 

 poetical compositions, by the same. 



Notices of the Shi'ah traditionists by Muh. B. 'Umar al-Kasshi ; Arabic; A.H. 622; 

 A.D. 1225. 



History of Persia under Shah Abbas 1 by Mulla Jalal, A.H. 1106; A.D. 1695. 



History of Ahmad Shah Durrani, the founder of the Afghan dynasty, by Sayyid 

 Husain Shirazi. 



Al-Tara'if fi Madhab al-Tawa'if, a work of Shi'ah controversy by Radi al-Din Ali B. 

 Ta'us al-Husaini ; Arabic; a.h. 1101 ; A.D. 1690. 



Manhaj al-Makal, and Talkhls al-Makal, biographical dictionaries of the Shi'ah tradi- 

 tionists by Muhammad B. Ali al-Astrabadi ; Arabic. 



History of the province of Baihak in Khorasan, by Abul-Hasau Ali B. Zaid, who wrote 

 A.H. 563; Persian; a.h. 835; a.d. 1432. 



Al-Mabsut, a treatise of Shi'ah law by Abu Ja'far Muh.-al-Tusi, who died a.h. 460 ; 

 Arabic; A.H. 697 ; A.D. 1298. 



Gulshan i Murad, a detailed history of the Zend dynasty from its origin to the death of 

 Ja'far Khan, by Abul-Hasan B. Mu'izz ud-Din Kashani Mustaufi ; Persian. 



Mahasin Isfahan, a description of Isfahan and its environs, with historical notices, com- 

 posed in the reign of Malik Shah Seljuki ; Arabic. 



Mir'at ul-Kashan, a geographical and historical account of the city of Kashan, by Mirza 

 Abdur-Rahim Khan Kashani ; Persian. 



Ma'asir ul-Muluk, or Memorabilia of kings, a rare work of the historian Khwandemir : 



ersian. 



Al-Mughni, a medical treatise by Sa'id B. Hibatallah, who died circa a. h. 500 : 

 AraUc; a.h. 5.34 ; A.D. 1139. 



Al-Masabih, a canonical collection of the traditional sayings of Muhammad, by al-Farra 

 al-Baghawi ; Arabic; A.H, 761 ; A.D. 1360. 



Twenty M SS., chiefly >v.rabic, from the library of the late Dr. John Lee, were bought 

 at a ])ublic sale. The following are the most noteworthy, — 



Tahkik 



