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AMHARIC ar-Risaliih ad-damigah. The second volume of Traditional Amharic commentary on Biblical the sacred books of the Druzes. Or. 13677. books. Copied at Gondar; c. 1975. Or. 1368^ Muzhir ad-Din al-Husayn ibn IVlahmud ibn A-F. al-Hasan az-Zaydani (d. 727/1327), al- MafHtTh fi hall al~AiasabJh. A commentary upon MiisahTh as-sunan of Abij Muhammad al-Husayn ibn xMas'iJd al-Farra' al-BagawT AMHARIC and ETHIOPIC (d. 516/1122); 17th century; probably Syria. The Andam commentary in Amharic on the Or. 13707. Ethiopic Biblical texts. Anonymous oral com- mentary, transcribed at Gondar; 1976-7. Or. 13683 G-L ARABIC and URDU The Andam commentary in Amharic on the Aluzth al-Qur^an. An Urdu translation of the Ethiopic text of the Qer a I los (writings of Cyril Qur^an, with notes, by Shah 'Abd al-Qadir of of Alexandria). Anonymous oral commentary, Delhi. Accompanied by the Arabic text; 19th transcribed at Gondar; 1976-7. Or. 13683 J. century. Or. 13664. Qaul al-jamJl. Rules for leading a holy life, by Shah Wall AUab ibn 'Abd al-Rahim DihlawT. ARABIC Accompanied by an Urdu version; 1260 (1844). Or. 13672. Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud al- Farra al-Bagawi, MasabTh as-Sunnah. A col- lection of authentic traditions; 1169 (1755); probably Turkey. Or. 13661. ARMENIAN as-Sifa bt-ta'rif huquq al-Must_afa by Abu The Four Gospels, preceded by the Letter of 1-Fadi 'Iyad ibn al-Yahsubl. A compilation of Eusebius to Carpianus and the Eusebian Con- traditions in praise of the Prophet Muham- cordance Tables. Copied by Vardan in the mad; dated 855 (1451). Or. 13676. Armenian year 649 (1200) at the Avag Vank' 77 monastery on Mouni Sepub near Krzincan (in neath, Burmese script. Blind-tooled red easicrn Turkey). Illumtmittinis: fols. ib 2:1, the leather binding; 19th century. Or. 13681. Letter to Carpianus is contained in two decorated quatrefoils; fols. 3b-4a, 5b-6a con- tain four of the ten tables arranged in double CHINESE and ENGLISH columns bene:ith rectangular headpieces in colours and gold, and surrounded by birds, Notices of Buddhism in China, By the Revd. particularly peacocks, and stylized plants; fols. J. Edkins. Abstracts. Notes on Edkins's work 7a, 117a, 182a, and 299a, the opening pages of made by the Revd. Silvester Whitehead, in his the Gospels, with large decorated initial letters hand; 19th century. Or. 13687. beneath headpieces surrounded by plants and Taotst words and phrases peacocks, the symbols of the evangelists (angel, An English-Chinese vocabulary of Taoist lion, ox, and eagle), and with the rest of the terms, compiled by the Revd. Silvester White- text in gold; the initial letter of each chapter is head, in his hand; 19th century. Or. 13688. usually decorated in colours and gold and there are numerous marginal ornaments, 384 fols. \ellum. Binding: seventeenth- century blind-tooled brown calf over wooden ETHIOPIC boards; on the upper cover a silver crucifix Psalter. The Psalms, Biblical Odes or Canticles, within a quatretbi! in the centre, surrounded Song of Solomon, and W'dasse Maryam. Vel- by five crosses riveted to the cover with holes lum. In double leather mahdar; 19th century. for a sixth, all but one with inscriptions record- Or. 13595. ing the names of various deceased faithful; on Psalter. Psalms, Biblical Odes or Canticles and the lower cover a silver roundel with inset W^dasse Maryam. Coloured picture of tbe cross, from which the figure of Christ has dis- Virgin and Child inserted. Vellum. In double appeared. Or. 13654. leather mahdar \ 20th century. Or. 13596. See: The British Library Journal, iii, no. 2.

GUJARATI Bl RMESE ^rJpald-Rasa of Vinayavijaya and Jasavijaya. CuLi Dhammu Dcsana Lahkara. Preaching and The Jain legend of ^rlpala. King of Malwa. Instruction. Buddhist text. Copied in B.E. The first and last folios are decorated with 1179 Nayon (1817). Palm-leaf (with some Pali floral designs and the text contains seven illus- gatha). Or. 13656. trations, quarter—or one-third—page size; Representations of royal donations at various i8th century. Or. 13622. places beginning in the year 121$ Dhala-Sagara (otherwise known as the - Seven scenes of Buddhist donations made in vamsa-rasa) of Gunasagara Suri. A Gujarati the years 1215-19 (1853-7). The donations version of the Harivamsa. Or. 13624. were probably made by Queen Tharasein Dana-STla-Tapa-Bhavana-CJta of Samaya- whose name appears on a label stuck on the sundara. A short Jain treatise on the merits of back cover of the manuscript; this queen was charity, piety, and austerity; dated 1683 possibly a minor queen of King Min-don (1626). Or. 13627. (ruled 1853-78). Paper folding book of thirty- IkavTsa-Thana. A gloss on the Ekavlsathdna- six folds, with painted scenes on thirty-tour prakarana of Siddhasena Suri; dated 1695 sides, explanatory text in yellow border under- (1638). Or. 13629. Madana-Mohanani Kathd of 5amala Bhata, the Sdlotara, i.e. ^dlihotra [}]. A treatise on farriery; 18th-century Gujarati poet; dated 1899 probably i8th century, from West India. (1842). Or. 13632. Or. 13633. Okhd-Haran and Rana-Jagna of Premanand. /,/7a7;flrrof Lalchand. A vernacular (bhasa) ver- Two poems, being Gujarati versions of San- sion of the Sanskrit treatise on arithmetic and skrit stories—the first taken from the geometry by Bhaskaracarya. Like Add. MS. and the second from the Yuddhakanda of the 26373, '^is copy is complete in sixteen chap- Ramdyana. The Okhd-haran is illustrated with ters and also has the same epilogue of twenty- thirty-eight coloured drawings half-page to eight verses in which Lalchand gives his almost full-page size in a vigorous Gujarati pedigree, naming his guru as Jinacandra Suri, folk style. The Rana-jagna is not illustrated. and states that he made this translation at the Tbe Okhd-haran s colophon gives the date of request of Jait Singh. Or. 13639. copying as 1823 (1766). Or. 13634. MadhumdltJ-Vdrtd and other Rajasthani verse See also PRAKRIT and GUJARATI; SAN- tales. Eighty-eight illustrations, in a sub-style SKRIT; SANSKRIT and GUJARATI of Mewar. Copied 1829-32 (1772-5). [Rajas- thani]. Or. 13682. See also SANSKRIT and HINDI

HEBREW Shibbole hal-leket A code of Jewish ritual law. Compiled by Zedekiah ben Abraham 'Anav. ORI YA Copied on vellum in a semi-cursive Italian Bicitra-Bhdrata, very probably the poem of hand by Zedekiah ben Moses; dated 1260. Or. tbat name by Visvambhara Kavi, being an 13705- Oriya metrical version of the Mahdbhdrata See also PERSIAN with an elaborate commentary to each parva. Incomplete; probably 19th century, from Orissa. Palm-leaf. Or. 13653. HINDI Rdma-Caritra. The story of , being an abridgement in Hindi verse of the Rdmdyana PALI and THAI epic; dated 1863 (1806). Or. 13625. Phra Malai illustrations, and Vinaya Pttaka Cuna-Hari-Rasa of Tsar ( = Tsvara) Das. The extracts. Paper folding book, white. Illustra- manuscript calls itself'SrTHara-rasa' but it is tions in twenty-one pairs on either side of not the well-known work of that name of Tsar openings; black laquered covers with gilded Das but this abridged version of it which he also border; mid-i9th century. Or. 13703. composed; dated 1813 (1756). [Rajasthani]. Or. 13628. Bheda-Sdra. A short Kabir-panthT work in the form of an imaginary dialogue between PERSIAN the master Kabir and his trusted disciple Zafarndma, the history of Timur by Saraf ad- Dharmadasa; dated 1889 (1832). Or. 13630. Dm 'AIT Yazdl, preceded by the same author's Collection of Hindi verses {Padas). A miscel- Muqaddima. Probably copied in Iran; dated laneous assortment of verses, mostly con- 3 Ramazan 995 (1587). Or. 13663. nected with the stories of Rama and Krsna; Barahin al-ajam. A treatise on prosody and probably 19th century. Or. 13631. rhyme by Muhammad Taql Mustawfi, Lisan 79 al-Mulk, called Sipihr; dated 1284 (1867). Or. 279 verses on Jaina cosmology; i6th century. 13681). Or. 13611. NabiT al-iinbiyii nijannat itl-mti\'a jTsiyur huyr Kalpasutra, the traditional life of MahavTra, the al-vard. An iiccount of the lives and qualities last founder of the Jain religion; dated 1502 of the Prophet Muhammad and others, by (1445/6). Twenty-seven very fine miniatures Abu Ibrahim AUiihyar ibn Muhammadyar in the early Western Indian style. Or. 13700. BalhT. No other manuscript of the work re- corded in published catalogues. Illuminated medallions; 19th century. North India. Or. PRAKRIT and GUJARATI anSajTis mm al-Qfinun |Book I]. A Persian Anuttarovavdtyasutta. The ninth Aiiga of the translation, with some modifications of al- ^vetambara Jaina Canon, with a Gujarati Qtlnrin fT t-tibb. The .Arabic treatise on tbe taba; dated 1862(1805/6). Part of a set includ- medical sciences b\ Ibn STnii. Not found in ing also Or. 13599-600. Or. 13598. published catalogues of manuscript collec- Niraydvalikd'srutaskandha, comprising Up- tions. According to the colophon of the - ahgasS to i2of the Canon, with Gujarati taba; script, the translation of Book I was completed dated 1865 (1808/9). Or. 13599- at Fayzdbad (in India) on 30 November 1717; Ntsihasutta. The first Chedasutra of the Canon, copied early 19th century. India. Or. 13691. with Gujarati taba; dated 1865 (1808/9). Or. 13600. Aydrangasutta. The first Ahga of the Canon, first ^rutaskandha, with a Gujarati taba by PERSi.\N (in Hebrew characters) Jinadhammasiha Muni; dated 1802 (1745/6). Fathndmd ('Book of the Conquest'). A poetical Or. 13601. paraphrase of the biblical narrative in the Uvdsagadasangasutta. The seventh Anga, with books of Joshua, Ruth, and Samuel composed Gujarati taba; dated 1802 (1745/6). Or. 13602. h\ .Maulanii 'imranT of ShTraz in Judaeo- Suyngadangdsutta. The second Ahga, first Persian. W itb miniatures in the Persian Srutaskandha, with Gujarati taba; i8tb (Isfahan) style illustrating episodes from the century. Or. 13603. Book of Joshua; 17th century. Or. 13704. Samavaydngasutta, the fourth Ariga, with a Gujarati taba; dated 184- (the last number is missing, i.e. A.D. 1783-93). Or. 13604. Panhdvdgaranangasutta. The tenth Ahga, with PERSIAN and L RDL a Gujarati taba based on Parsvacandra's DTirJn-t-Khawdjah .Mir Dard. The poetical Bdldbodha; early i8th century. Or. 13606. works of Khawajah MTr Dard; dated 1259-60 Vivdgangasutta. The eleventh Ahga, with a (1843-4). Or. 13671. Gujarati gloss; dated 1766 (1709/10), and copied at Patan. Or. 13607. Jambuddivapannatti. The sixth Upahga of the Canon, with a Gujarati taba by jTvavijaya PRAKRIT Garii. Incomplete; dated 1850 (1793/4), ^^^ Suriyapannatti. The fifth Lpahga of the copied at Surat. Or. 13609. J^vetambara Jaina Canon; dated 1607 Dasaveydliyasutta. The second Mulasutra of (1551/2). Or. 13608. the Canon, with Gujarati Bdldvabodha; i8th Sangrahaniratna, by Maladhari Candra Suri, century. Or. 13610. the same work as the Laghusangrahanisutra; SangrahanisHtra. Candra Suri's work on Jain 80 Fathndmd. Or. 13704 cosmology in 346 verses, with A Gujarati gloss; sdra, with the Sanskrit t:Tka of SumatikTrti, dated i8(u (1805/6). Or. 13612. styled Jndnabhusand; dated 1623 (1566/7). Laghusahgrahani, on , by Candra Or. 13621. Suri, with the Gujarati Bdldvabodha oi Sivanidhana Gani; dated 1721 (1664/5). Or.

SANSKRIT Laghusatigrahani of Candra Suri, with the Gujarati Bdldvabodha of Sivanidhana Gani; Jiidtadharmakathdngasiitravivrti. Abhayadeva 17th century. Or. 13614. Suri's commentary on Ndyddhammakahanga- Jambuiiirttra, the life of Jambusvami, by sutta, the sixth Ahga of the Svetambara Jaina Padmasundara, with a Gujarati gloss; c. A.D. Canon; r6th century. Or. 13605. 1800. Or. 13615. Crahabhdvanaprakdsa, or Bhuvanadipikd, an Kalpiistllra^ with a Gujarati taba. Incomplete; astrological treatise in 179 verses by Padma- 18th century. The gloss contains frequent prabha Suri; dated 1711 (1655/6). Or. lengthy passages, usually illustrative stories. 13635- Or. 13616. Bdlabodhaprakararia, a manual of Hindu astro- Panhdvdgarana. The tenth An^a ot the logy for the young, by Munjaditya; dated i860 Svetambara Jaina Canon, with Gujarati taba. (1804/5). Or. 13637. The first five ajjhayanas only; i8th century. Narapatijayacarydsvarodaya, a manual of prog- Or. 13617. nostications, etc., by Narapati, son of Amra- Cauvisadandakd, by Gajasara. Forty-six verses ; dated 5aka 1691 (1768/9). Or. 13638. on the twenty-four phases of existence accord- Siddhdntabmdu, Madhusudana SarasvatTs ing to Jain doctrine, with a Gujarati gloss; commentary on Sahkaracarya's Dasasloki, dated 1794 (1737/8), and copied at Surat. Or. with the text of the latter; dated 1778 (1721/2). 13618. Or. 13640. \ ndrasatjrimsikasutra, by Gajasara, with an Antyestjpaddhati. A manual of funerary rites, extensive Gujarati commentary; 18th century. by ^atrughna; dated 1731 (1674/5). Or. 13644. The same text as the preceding. Or. 13619. As{ddhydyirudri, a compilation in eight chap- Dravyasahgrahd, by Nemicandra, a ters of Vedic mantras on Rudra, including as work in sixty-one ary as, on the Jain doctrine of the fifth chapter the Satarudriya; dated 1915 materiality, with a Gujarati taba by Mati- (1848/9). Or. i36_45. batpsa .Muni; dated 1790 (i733/4)- Or. 13620. Nityasandhyavidhdnapujd, a manual of rites for KalpasUtra, with an elaborate Gujarati gloss; the worship of the goddess BhuvanesvarT; 18 19th century. Or. 13626. dated 1795 (i735/6)- Or. 13646. Sattarisayathdna, by Dharmaghosa and his Bhuvanesvaristotra, by PrthvTdhara, disciple of pupil Somatilaka, on the 170 Jinasthana; dated Sambhunatha. A Tantric hymn to the goddess 1971 (1914/15). One miniature. Or. 13696. SarasvatT; i8th century. Or. 13647. Cift of A. Wanters, Esq. Bhdgavatapurdna, with the commentary KalpasHtra. With an elaborate Gujarati com- BhavarthadTpika of Sridharasvami. Fragments mentary. Incomplete; mid-i8th century, with of the first two Skandhas. Four miniatures; seventy miniatures in a vigorous folk style. Or. 18th century. Or. 13648. 13701. Pancaraksd. Five dharanls, to the five Buddhist protective goddesses. Nepalese blue-black PRAKRIT and SANSKRIT paper, with gold ink. Copied in N.S. 632 (1512), Karmakdnda, being the second part of Nemi- in Kathmandu. Five miniatures of the god- candra Siddhantajhanacakravarti's Comma(a- desses mostly in gold. Or. 13651. 82 Sanskrit Paradigms. A manual of the morpho- SYRIAC and NEO-SYRIAC logy of the Sanskrit language; 19th century. Lexicon. A selective lexicon of classical Syriac Or. 13655. roots in the Solduz dialect of Neo-Syriac; Mahdvtdydrdjrii Dhdrani. A hymn to the Bud- dated 1903. Or. 13597. dhist goddess Mabapratyahgira. Copied in N.S. 997 (1877) in Kathmandu. One miniature. Or. 13684. GanitasighrabodhasdranJ, a set of astronomical TAMIL tables, composed and written by Rupacanda Nitikkasukal. Moral stories for children. Trans- Dayarama at Karachi in A.D. 1895. Or. 13698. lated from the Sanskrit into Tamil by Cup- Cift of A. Wanters, Esq. piramaniya Parati; 19th century. Or. 13658. Sdrani, a set of astronomical tables, incomplete; Pu{papantam. Work on astrology translated 19th century. Or. 13699. Cift of A. Wanters, from the Sanskrit into Tamil. The translation Esq. was done by M. Canmuka Mutaliyar in 1910. Or. 13659. Sri Tanvantari pUja viti. A work on indigenous (mainly Ayurvedic) medicine. Compiled by SANSKRIT and GUJARATI M. Canmuka Mutaliyar in 1862. Or. 13660. A collection of poetical works in Sanskrit and Jndnasdtam and Premayacdram. Vaisnava Gujarati. A. Citagovinda of Jayadeva. B. literature; 19th century. Or. 13693. Various Jain works in Gujarati; i8th century. Nanasivavathakattalai or The elements of the Or. 13642. controversy respecting the plurality of souls. By Two collections of maxims on ethics and polity Scshattrisiva Desikar. English translation by ascribed to Canakya, with Gujarati glosses. the Revd. Thomas Foulkes; 19th century. Or. A. Laghucdnakya; B. Vrddhacdnakya\ dated '3694- 1924 (1867/8). Or. 13643. Matalayattiruppani. Management of charitable mutt. Or. 13695.

SANSKRITandHINDI TELUGU Jyotisasdrasarigraha, a metrical summary of Parts of a Palm-leaf manuscript. Religious text. attributed to Mahadeva, with One leaf and covers are illustrated; 18th-19th a Hindi gloss; dated 1830 (1773/4). Or. 13636. century. Or. 13649. Vaidyajivana, Lolombaraja's Sanskrit treatise on pathology, with a gloss in Sanskrit and Hindi; dated 1792 (1735/6). Or. 13641. THAI Horoscope. Profusely illustrated in a vigorous, lively band, showing the twelve years of the animal cycle calendar in two series (side i). SANSKRIT, PRAKRIT, and HINDI Paper folding book, black; mid-i9th century. Four folios from different manuscripts with Or. 13650. miniatures in Western Indian styles; i8th Elephant Manuscript. Text profusely illus- century. Or. 13697. Cift of A. Wanters, Esq. trated with twenty-three paintings of mythical 83 elephants, followed by ordinary elephants in URDU natural settings. Paper folding book, white; Dita'-yi manzHm. A prayer; dated A.D. 1909. mid-i9th century. Or. 13652, 13652A. Or. 13665. Masnawi-yi sitbh-i tajalli. A poem in praise of the Prophet Muhammad; dated 1289 (1872). TURKISH Or. 13666. A collection of fatawa, i.e. religious decrees; Aldfrdngd, ydhud \4vrupd dddb-i miuTsireti', dated 1352-3 (i934-5)- Or. 13667. An account of the manners and customs of Risdlat fi bahs baydn al-mubdrakat maulUd upper- and middle-class Western European sharif al-maimunat; dated 1251 (1835). Or. society by a 19th-century Ottoman traveller; 13668. late 19th century. Or. 13657. Najdt-iQdsim. An account of the life, teachings, [Dtvdn-i Sirri-i EgribdzT\. The Divdn of Seyyid and virtues of'AH Murtaza Amir Abu al-'Ala Mehemmed SirrT of Egriboz (Euboea); mid- Akbarabadi, by Muhammad C^sim AbiJ 19th century. Or. 13662. al-*AlaT Danapun; dated 1283 (1866). Or. Kitdb't Biilkiyd veMelik Sdh-i cihdn ve hikdyet-i 13670. Sdhimerdn. An anonymous Turkish version of Tanbih al-ghdfilin. A treatise on the religious tbe Arabian Nights story of tbe Queen of the duties and obligations of the followers of Serpents; probably 17th century. Or. 13678. Islam, based on the traditions of the Prophet Kdnunndme-i Cin ve Hi(d (Hitayname.) The Muhammad: dated 1263 (1847). Or. 13673. translation by Huseyn Hezarfenn of T^drih-i Hitdy va Hutan, a description and history ot China in Persian by 'Ali called HitaT; dated 1641. Or. 13679. URDU and PERSIAN [Cevdhirndme-i Sultdn Murdd]. A translation of NasTr ad-Din T^sT's Persian treatise on Diwdn-i Shdh Niydz Barehrri. The poetical minerals, gems, metals and perfumes entitled works of Shah Niyaz BarelawT, in Persian and Tansuqnama-yi Tlfidni; 15th or early i6th cen- Urdu; dated 1280 (1863). Or. 13669. tury. Or. 13680. A register of the ^ulemd holding the various official appointments in the Ottoman empire, MISCELLANEOUS from ^eyh el~isldm down to medrese professor; probably late 19th century. In the first sections A pack of playing cards from Orissa/Bihar. Its some names have been embellished with theme is the Ramayanam; probably 19th powdered gold or silver. Or. 13702. century. Or. 13692.