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those who took an interest in the Armenian literature, that the trea- 

 sures contained in the Library of the principal place of the Armenian 

 hierarchy, were inacessible to Europeans. At last the influence of M. 

 de Flahn, Imperial Commissioner of the Caucasian provinces, has obtain- 

 ed from Catholicus the catalogue of his library, and the Academy of 

 St. Petersburg hastened to communicate it to the public. We there 

 may observe, that the disasters which during so many centuries op- 

 pressed the Armenian nation, equally retarded the progress of their 

 literature; for the library of Edchmiadzin contains only 181 manus- 

 cripts, among which there are a hundred, which treat about history or 

 geography, while the others are works on theology or scholastic philo- 

 sophy. M. Schott has printed the catalogue of the Chinese books of 

 the Library in Berlin, which is a continuation of the catalogue presented 

 by M. Klaproth. 5 M. De Hammer edited the catalogue of his splendid 

 collection of Arabian, Persian and Turkish manuscripts, and also that 

 of the manuscripts of the Ambrosian Library. 6 M. Fluegel has like- 

 wise inserted in the annals of Vienna, a list of new acquisitions of 

 Arabic manuscripts, which the Royal Library of Paris has made during 

 the last years. The catalogue of the oriental manuscripts of Tubingen is 

 published by M. Ewald, 7 and M. Dulaunier has inserted in your Journal 

 the list of the Malayan manuscripts of the Asiatic Society of London. 

 Lady Chambers has given to the press the catalogue of the magnificent 

 collection of Sanscrit manuscripts, which her husband had made in 

 India. 8 This catalogue is one of the last works of Rosen, whom death 

 has so untimely taken from the prosecution of his oriental studies. 

 The Academy of Lisbon has been sometime occupied with the preparation 

 of a complete catalogue of all the oriental manuscripts in the Libraries 

 of Portugal, which is of an incalculable value to literature, as the long 

 dominion of the Portuguese in various parts of the East must have 

 enabled them to collect a great many manuscripts. The Academy of 

 Portugal will honour your Society with the charge of publishing the 



5. Verzeichnsis der Chinesischen und Mandschu, Tungusischen Biicher der Bib- 

 liotkek in Berlin, von Ed. Schott, 1840, in 8vo. 



6. In the Wiener Jahrbuchern, and separately printed in a small number of copies. 



7. Verzeichniss der Orientalischen Handschriften der Bibliotkek zu Tubingen, 

 von Evald, 1839, in 4to. 



8. Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the late Sir R. Chambers, with a Memoir by 

 Lady Chambers. London, 1838, in fol. 



