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their collections of Oriental Manuscripts published, and others, we are 

 informed, are still in preparation. In No. CCXXXV. of this Journal, 

 the catalogue of the Asiatic Museum of St. Petersburgh has been 

 noticed. Accounts of the catalogue of the library of Upsala and 

 of that of Haven are in the Journal of the German Asiatic Society, 

 and Professor Hall has promised us a notice of the first volume of the 

 catalogue of the Boyal Library of Berlin containing Sanscrit MSS. 

 Among the catalogues which are preparing for the press is Forbes' s 

 catalogue of the Persian MSS. of the British Museum, and Morley's 

 and Bland's catalogues of the Persian books of the India House 

 library and the Persian books of the Bodleyan library. But the 

 most important work in preparation, is a catalogue of the libraries of 

 Constantinople, which is being compiled by order of the Sultan. 



The catalogus Codicum Orient. Bibl. Acad. Lugduno-Batavse, 

 1851, Autore Dozy, of which two volumes have been published, 

 deserves a short account here, because the collection of oriental MSS. 

 of Leyden is one of the best in Europe, and it has hitherto been 

 by far the most useful. Professor Dozy has displayed very great 

 judgment and learning in his labour, and his is probably the best 

 oriental catalogue, that has yet been published. 



These two volumes contain eleven chapters, and will be continued 

 by another savant, Professor Dozy being no longer in charge of the 

 oriental library of Leyden. I will mention here shortly a few of the 

 most interesting books contained in each chapter with the numbers 

 they have in the catalogue. 



1 Chapter; Encyclopaedias. 



No. 2, ^JbJ) f&A* by Abu 'abd Allah. Mo&. b. A^mad b. Tiisof 

 Khwarezmy Katib who flourished in the fourth century and gives, 

 in 15 chapters, the heads and some of the technical terms of the 

 principal sciences of the Musalmans. There is a copy of this book 

 in the British Museum bound up with several other useful treatises. 



No. 5. ^^} ^j'xj -j cjJ) Ll$i by Nowayry who died in 733. 

 This is one of the most important works in Arabic literature. It 

 contains a complete Encyclopaedia of the historical sciences of the 

 Musalmans and consisted originally of 17 volumes. 



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