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ART. XIX.—The Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew Manuscripts inthe Hunterian Library in the University of Glasgow. ByT. H. WEIR, B.D., Assistant to the Professor of OrientalLanguages in the University of Glasgow.

DR. WILLIAM HUNTER (d. 1783) bequeathed to the Universityof Glasgow, along with his Natural History Collection,a library containing about twelve thousand volumes ofprinted books and six hundred manuscripts. The latterwere catalogued by G. Haenel, in his Catalogi LibrorumManuscriptorum, Leipzig, 1830, columns 786—798. In regardto the Oriental manuscripts, however, he frequently doesno more than state in what languages they are written,and that not always correctly. Thanks to the courtesyof the Keeper of the Museum, who gave every facility ofaccess to the cases, the following is an emended list of theArabic, Syriac, and Hebrew manuscripts. With the excep-tion of No. 7, none of these is written on vellum.

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740 ARABIC, SYRIAC, AND HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

AEABIC.

1.Qur'an: dated 1068 A.H.

2.Qur'an: dated Medina, 1057 A.H.

3.Qur'an : dated 1082 A.H.

4.Qur'an: no date.

5.Qur'an: no date.

6Qur'an: last few pages fragmentary; chapters 105 to 109

are wanting: no date.

7.Part I of the Qur'an: written on vellum in various colours

of ink; titles of chapters, etc., in Kufic characters, therest in African hand: no date.

8.Part I I I of the Qur'an: no date.

9.Part YII of the Qur'an : no date.

10.Part XXIX of the Qur'an: no date.

11.A small volume containing extracts from the Qur'an (Surahs

46, 48, 55, 56, 67, and 78) and Prayers: no date.


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ARABIC, SYRIAC, AND HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS. 741

12.The "Mugnl'l Nasihln wa Muhdi'l 'Abidln," a religious

compendium, consisting of eighty-four homilies. Com-mencement :

iJa-Cy*

i>l

Copied by Ahmadu' bn Isma'il in the country of Budain the convent (<L&) of Saih Sulaiman Afandi thepreacher in the great Mosque in the year 1064 A.H.

It contains 128 closely written folios of 27 lines tothe page. The author's name does not appear.

13.Apparently a commonplace-book ; on the outside of the

cover is the title, " Majmu'ah Sarfah flha Lata'ifKatlrah wa Jawahir Kabirah," and the name SaihSulaiman Afandi. The only piece of any length whichis in Arabic is the " Tuhfatu'l Muluk " of Zainu'l DinMuhammad ibn abi Bakr Hasanu'l Eazi.

14.

A commentary on the Qur'an, from the xixth Surah tothe cixth, called the "Kitabu'l Majalis" of Qutbu'l'Arifia Mahmud, al Uskuduri (cf. Brit. Mus. Catalogueof Turkish MSS., p. 234*, line 8). On the outside ofthe cover, under the title and author's name, is thename of the Saih Sulaiman Afandi.• A prefatory note says the " Majalis " were collectedafter the death of Uskuduri by the Saih Isma'il. Thedate breaks off in the middle of the name of the month.

15.The " Kitabu'l i'lSm bi'ahadlthi'l ahkam " :

Brit. Mus. Cat., p. 116; Add. 7,257: Imtructio deTraditionibus Statutorum : " nomen auctoris haudapparet."


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16."Kitabu'l Irshad," of the Saih Mufld (Abu 'Abdi'llah

Muhammad, al Nu'manl, f 413 or 416); beingbiographies of the Twelve Imams. It is a veryneatly Written MS. : there is no date. See Beale'aOriental Biographical Dictionary, revised edition, 1894,p. 16.

17.I. Extract, containing the "Bab Hadithi'l Mi'raj," from

Pocock's MS. (Bodleian Cat., vol. i, p. 57) of theSahih of Buhari, f 256 A.H. = 869 A.D.

II. Book containing the story of the Night Journey,transcribed, like the last, from an Oxford MS. (Bodl.Cat, i, p. 185, No. Dcccliv, Mareshall, 518).

III. The "Kitab Raudati'l Manazir fi 'ilmi'l awa'il wa'lawahir" of Abu'l Walidi'bn Sihnah of Aleppo,f 815 A.H. = 1412 A.D., part ii, from the Fall of Manto the Hijrah.

18.

In European Sand.I. Extract from the "Kitabu'l 'Ara'is fi'l Majalis" of

Tha'labi, copied from a Bodleian MS. (Cat., vol. i,p. 175, Mareshall, 40).

II. Extracts from Ibn Sihnah's " Kitab Taharati'l Qulub,"also copied from a Bodleian MS. (Cat., vol. i, p. 95,Huntington, 506).

III . Extracts from the " Kitab Dala'ili'l Hairat" of Jazulifrom the Bodleian MS., vol. i, p. 67, Mareshall, 79.The object of the copyist is to prove that the Muslimsdo not ask God to pray for Muhammad.

19.The commentary by 'Abdu'l Latifi'bn Firistah, called Ibnu'l

Malik, on the " Manaru'l Anwar fi TJsuli'l Fiqh " ofAbu Barakat 'Abdu'llahi'bn Ahmad, known as Hafizu'lDlni'l Nasafi, t 710 A.H. = 1310 A.D. Dated Con-

• stantinople, 1050.


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ARABIC, STEIAC, AND HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS. 743

20.Title: "Al Laitu'l 'Abis fI Sadamati'l Majalis," beginning:

on the principles of Law (cf. Hajji Khalifa, vol. v,p. 346). Dated 943.

21.An account of property in Constantinople set apart for

religious, educational, and other public purposes, bythe Sultan Muhammad II. Commencement:

J l J\j\ ^ JJj i/jJl *U XKJI

Dated 936 A.H.

22.The Magribi Prayer-book, called "Kitab Dala'ili'l Hairat,"

of Muhammad al Jazull : beautifully written inMagribi hand.

<23.

I. Selections from the Apothegms and Sermons of 'All ibnabl Talib :—

folio 2a : Prayer of 'All, beginning:

folio 2b : Selection from Apothegms, beginning:

J J)

folio 14: "'All's charge to his son Huaain, on hisleaving Siffln," beginning:


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folio 19: Sermon of 'All, beginning:

II. Treatises of Jalalu'l Din Muhammad Davani (inPersian):—

folio 21 : His Commentary on his Sufi RubaTs (Brit.Mus. Add. 16,839, xi): dated Friday, 11th Sauwal,1023 A.H.

folio 59: The "Riealatu'l Sahihah"; finished copyingSunday, 8th Du'l Hijjah, 1022 A.H.

folio 65 : The "Risalatu'l Tahllllyah" : n.d.folio 86 : Commentary on a Gazal of Hafiz; finished

Wednesday, 17th Sa'ban, 1022 A.H.folio 92: A treatise entitled "RisalatuTAdiilah": n.d.folio 100 : Commentary on a Verse of Hafiz: n.d.folio 104 : Commentary on a verse of the Guljan i Raz.

III. folio 108 : The " Taflls Iblls." The author is named'Izzu'l Din 'Abdu'l Salam, son of Saih Ahmad, parentof Saih Ganim: finished, 15th Sauwal, 1023 A.H. Inthe Catalogue of the Khedivial Library, Cairo, Part II ,p. 76, the author is called:

24.

Arabic with French Translation.

The "Kitabu'l Ajwibah," or " Eitabu'l Alif," of Ibnu'l'Arabl.

25.

Treatise by Ibnu'l "Arabi, entitled " Risalah f I Bayan Surati'lIsti'dad, etc." Hajji Khalifa calls it simply 'i^ ^It begins:

Cf. Ahlwardt's Berlin Catalogue, 2,916.


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folio 10: Treatise written by Ibnu'l 'Arabl aftervisiting Tunis in the year 590 A.H. In the Catalogueof the Khedivial Library, Cairo (Part II, p. 116), itis entitled:

folio 33: The "Kitabu'l Isra [Isra'] ila'l Maqami'lAsra," by Ibnu'l 'Arabl.

folio 55: The "Kitabu'l TajalllySt," by IbnuTArabl.folio 77: The " Miftahu'l Gaib" (Hajji Khalifa,

12,581), by Ibnu'l 'Arabl.'folio 128: The Dlwan of Ibnu'l Farid, t 632 A.H. =

1235 A.D. The beginning is wanting : dated 787 A.H.folio 198: The " Risalatu'l Anwar," by Ibnu'l 'Arabl.folio 208 : The " Eisalat Tahrlri'l Bayan fl Taqrlr

Su'abi'l Iman wa Rutabi'l Ihsan," by Ibnu'l 'Arabl(Hajji Khalifa, iv, p. 49).

folio 223 : The "Maratibu'l Taqwa," by Ibnu'l 'Arab!,commencing:

folio 240 : The treatise called i .A^J\ &}\^J\ by SaihSadru'l Dini'l Qunawl, beginning:

Cf. Bibl. Nat. Catalogue, 2,037, 3° and the BerlinCatalogue, 2,995.

26.

Title: "Kitabu'l Injlli'l SariE'l Tahir w a Misbahu'l Muniri'lZahir."

The Four Gospels, each Gospel being prefaced bya biographical notice concerning its author. That ofSt. Matthew is said to have been written in Hebrew,being begun in Palestine and finished in India, "whitherthe disciples had driven him from the land of the


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Jews." St. John wrote a commentary on St. Matthew'sGospel in Spain. This Gospel is divided into 101chapters, and was written in the first year of Claudiusor the ninth from the Resurrection. St. Mark wrotehis Gospel in Rome, in the fourth year of Claudius,in Latin. St. Peter, the chief of the Apostles, firstpreached it in Rome, then Mark in Alexandria, wherehe was martyred. It contains fifty-four chapters.St. Luke wrote his Gospel in Greek, in the fourteenthyear of Claudius, in Alexandria. St. Paul preachedit first and then Luke, in Macedonia (madlnahmaqdunlyah). It contains eighty chapters. St. Johnwrote in Greek, in Ephesus, in the eighteenth (sic) yearof Nero.

The date of copying is the month Nisan, 1697 A.D.

27.

This volume (of 26 folios, of which, however, only 38 pagesare written on) begins with an Index of Fifty Homiliesof Ephraim Syrus, with their subjects: then followfive pages of the First Homily, being a letter tothe Monk John on Patience; six of the Fourth, onRepentance; and nineteen of the Fifth, on HermitLife. Cf. Assemani, Bibl. Orient., i, p. 150.

28.

I. The Treatise (Risalah) of Hermes addressed to the Soul.It was edited by Fleischer, Leipzig, 1870.

II. A Collection of Christian Proverbs.III . The Forty-eighth. Homily of Ephraim Syrus.IV. The Forty-ninth Homily of Ephraim Syrus.

Dated 1597 A.D.

29.

I. The "Intellectual Paradise" (Firdausu'l 'Aqli) ofGregory of Nyssa.

Copied in the year 6763 of Adam.


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At the end are some verses and the Decalogue (in•which the seventh and eighth Commandments precedethe sixth). This seems to be the only copy in whichthe work is ascribed to Gregory; the Bodleian Cataloguedescribes it as of unknown authorship (ii, 44).

II. Four Homilies on Job by John Chrysostom.III . The Canonical Book of Revelation.

All three are in the same hand.

30.THB WORKS OF ST. JOHN OP DAMASCUS.

I. Five treatises on Faith, the Nestorians, Iconoclasts, theDivinity and Birth of our Lord, and on the Jacobites.

Cf. the Catalogue of Arabic MSS. in the Bibliothe'queNationale, 165, 3°.

II . (folio 84) Treatise on Philosophy, Logic, and Meta-physics, containing fifty-three babs.

Cf. Bibl. Nat. Catalogue, 165, 2°.III . (folio 148) The " Mi'atu'l Maqalati'l 'Ilmlyah," i.e. the

"EKBoal<! T7j<} 6p0oS61;OV 7Tt'(7T6(»?.

Cf. Bibl. Nat. Catalogue, 164.Several folios are wanting, and have been supplied by

a different hand. The last bears the date 610 A.H.

31.

The " Imitation of Christ" of Thomas a Kempis translatedfrom ' Athenian' into Arabic by Ignatius of Orleansof the disciples of St. Francis and order of Capuchins,with the co-operation of a native of Aleppo.

1. Life of Thomas a Kempis.2. Introduction to the " Imitation."3. The " Imitation," translated by the said Ignatius

freely so as to make the sense clear, by authority ofthe Apostolic Roman Church.

4. Conclusion : finished 1638 A.D. = 1048 A.H.5. Certain prayers and confessions to be used at

Communion.


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748 ARABIC, 8YEIAC, AND HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

32.The " Enchiridion " of Martin Luther: translated and written

by Salomon Negri in Halle (Saxony) and finished 1716.

33.

Arabic and Latin.

Homilia Papae dementis XI, habita in dominica Resurrec-tionis Christi Domini inter Missarum solemnia inBasilica Principis Apostolorum Anno MDCCIII Romae:Arabice elaborata olim a celeberrimo Salomone Negri,Damasceno, descripta a Georgio Jacobo Behr . . . . 1717.

34.

The "Kitab . . . . fl Ri'asati'l Baba," that is, TheKara xiy? 'Ap%fj'; TOV Uairna of Nectarius, Patriarchof Jerusalem, lti60—1672; translated from the Greekby the late Reverend Father Christodoulos, metropolitanof Gaza. Dated 1722.

35.

I. The "Hallu'l Mujiz," the commentary on the "Mujizu'lQanun," by Muhammad ibn Muhammad, al Aqsara'I:no date.

II . The ''Qanunjah " of Mahmud ibn 'Umara'l Yagmlni.<

III . A short treatise in Turkish.IV. A Treatise called the " Kitabu'l Bahiyah " by Nasiru'l

Dlni'l Tusl. This MS. may be unique: cf. HajjiKhalifa," 9,631.

36.

The First and Second Treatises of the First Part of theFourth Book of the " Qanun " of Ibn Slna, in Arabicand Latin: n.d.

37.

Arabic with Latin Translation.

The Treatise of Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakarya'l RazIon Smallpox and Measles : no date.


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38.The "Kitabu'l Mujiz" of 'All ibn abi'l Hazmi'l Qurasi,

called Ibnu'l Nafls.It is preceded by two pages on the parts of the

human body, and a number of verses; and is followedby a short treatise of three and a half pages from IbnSlna, beginning: «LU«J J^Jl ^jS • and a third treatiseof two and a half pages on Compounds.

The colophon bears the date 740 A.H.

39.

The "Kitabu'l Mujiz." There precede fourteen pages ofContents in a different hand. There are also numerousnotes, especially at the beginning and end.


40.

The " Ma la yasa'u'l Tablb Jahlahu" of Ibnu'l Kablr, i.e.Yusufu'bn Isma'lla'l Juwaini, ibnu'l Kutbi, which hefinished writing on Monday, 15th Jumada II, 711 A.H.= 1311A.D. Dated 1059?

41.

The " Azharu'l Afkar fl Jawahiri'l Ahjar " of Ahmadu'bnYusufa'l Taifasl.

The beginning and end have been supplied by a laterhand. The original MS. covers 67 folios of 13 linesto the page. It is written in a large hand, and beginsat the words j ^ [ ^ ^ ij&M . ^j'is- ijt+s- in the first baband ends with the fourth line (i-s—-li) of the twenty-fifth bab. No date.

42.

Twelve pages (one for each month) giving tables by whichto find the Hijrah date from the Gregorian.

43.

Eight small folios of diagrams showing the different Classesof Heirs (fara'id).


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44.

Arabic with interleaved French Translation.The "Kitab Mugnl'l Hullan," abridged from the "Hayatu'l

Haiwan " of Al Damlri, f 808 A.H. = 1405 A.D.The translation was finished in the year 169-.Cf. Bibl. Nat. Catalogue, 2,801.

45.The "Kitab Qabasi'l Anwar" of Saiji Jamalu'l Din Yusufii'l

NadrumI [Nadwarami] (who was alive in the year807 A.H.).

Commencement:

Ends :Cf. Hajji Khalifa, No. 9,329 : ^

46.On the Rising of the Nile: a neatly written treatise

explaining the. Rising of the Nile from astronomicalcauses.

No title, author's name, nor date ; it begins:

47.A Collection of Magical and similar Treatises covering 142

large folios of 21 lines to the page. The writing islarge and clear, and on the flyleaf (p. 1) are descriptivetitles.

folios 1—34a: A Compendium composed by Yusufu'bn Amir Saifi'l Dlni'l Muksi for the use of his sonIskandar, and called " Mahzunu'l Asrar." It isdescribed on the flyleaf of the volume (p. 1) as

U *Lc ^ i i}\~sj; and begins:

Jl


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folios 34J-37a: A treatise on the science of theLetters (< » j j^ A^-); begins:

folios 37b-41a : Commentary on the " Hafiyah," onthe same subject as the last, beginning:

(Hajji Khalifa, No. 4,674).folios 41J-47 : A treatise on Talismans, beginning :

JU! \zjai3 JlS JJU\ U > X J ^LU! ^ l y c_»l

o 48a begins:

folios 49-55: A treatise " de mysticis literarum,"beginning:

folios 55J-64: The " LawamiVl Ta'rif fi Matili'i'lTasrlf" of Abu 'Abdi'llah Ya'Isu'l Umawi; HajjiKhalifa, 11,223.

folios 65-69 : The " Mawahibu'l Rabbaniyah fi'lAsrari'l Ruhanlyah " of the same author as the last;Hajji Khalifa, 13,367.

folios 71-79 : Treatise on the science of Geomancy.Begins:

folios 81-110 : A Treatise on the science of Physi-ognomy, entitled " Kitabu'l Siyasah fi 'Ilmi'l Firasah,"by Muhammad ibn abi Talibi'l Ansarl, al Dimasqi,f 737 A.H. = 1336-7 A.D. It begins:


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752 ARABIC, SYRIA C, AND HEBRE3V MANUSCRIPTS.

/olios 111-142: The "Wajlzu'l Muntaqa wa'l'AzIzu'lMultaqa," by Sihabu'l Din Ahmadu'bn Yusufa'lSafadl. Commencement:

Key to signs in European hand.

48.I. The "Marahu'l Arwah," on the weak verbs by

Ahmadu'bn 'All ibn Mas'ud, with copious marginalnotes at the beginning and, in European hand,paradigms towards the end.

II. The "Tasrlfu'l 'IzzI" of 'Izzu'l Din 'Abdu'l Wahhabi'lZanjani.

Dated 983 A.H.III . A short treatise, in which a number of weak forms are

parsed, beginning:

There is no title nor author's name.

49.The " Muhtar " of Muhammad ibn abl Bakr, al Razi. He

finished writing it in the year 760 A.H. = 1359 A.D.Copied 1051.

50.The " Qamus " of Firuzabadi:

Copied Ahmedabad, 1071.

51.The " Kitab Sarh Mulhati'l I ' rab": commentary on

grammar, both text and commentary being by Hariri,1515 A.H. = 1123 A.D.

Commencement:

52.I. The " Maqsud" of Yusufu'l Hanafi, or, according to

others, of Abu Hanlfah : dated 983 A.H.


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II. The "Binau'l Af'al": dated 983 A.H.III. The " Amthilatu'l Muhtalifah" (paradigm of nasara

with marginal notes): no date; it is followed byparadigms of weak verbs.

53.The " Maqsud " above: the text is vowelled: no date.

54.I. The "Mi'at 'Amil" of 'Abdu'l Qahiri'bn 'Abdi'l KahmSni'l

Jurjani: thirteen small folios of eleven lines to thepage: dated 1160 A.H.

II . A short treatise in same hand (ten folios), commencing:

J \i

55.Abecedarium very neatly written in black, gilt, and green,

followed by some daily prayers.On cover : " Angelo Timon£, 1732, ^ j ^ \ . "

56.The "Talhlsu'l Miftah" of Jalalu'l Dlni'l QazwinI (t 739),

being an epitome of Part I I I of the " Miftahu'l 'Ulum "of Al Sukaki, t 626.


57.The " Mutauwal" of Ibn Mas'ud ibn 'Umara'l Taftazani,

t 792; being a commentary on the " Talhlsu'l Miftah "above: dated 975 A.H. : very ill written.

1 Mr. A. G. Ellis, M.A., of the British Museum, kindly identified this asthe 'Awamil of Muhammad ibn Pir 'All, al Birgili, t 981 A.H.


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754 ARABIC, SYEIAC, AND HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

58.The Dlwan of Al Mutanabbl. Begins :

Dated 1131 A.H. This is a magnificent MS.

59.The Life of Timur (Tamerlane), called the " 'Aja'ibu'l Maqdur

fi Ahbar Tlmiir," by Ibn 'Arab Shah, with an appendixof seven pages, giving an account of the work: dated923 A.H. 150 folios of 21 lines to the page.

60.The "Ta'rllj Ahad Misr mina'l Jarakisah," by Muhammad

al Zunbull, al Bammal: dated 1028 A.H.Hajji Khalifa, 2,158, gives the name as Ibn Sunbul.

The Catalogue of the Khedivial Library, Cairo, Part V,p. 23, gives the author's name as—

There precede nine pages containing stories of Nizamu'lMulk and of Al Hidr; and at the end are (a) a letterfrom the Sultan Bayazid I I to Al Gurl: Brit. Mus.Turkish MSS., p. 83a, line 4 ; (b) a second letter; and(c) an account of the Fatimid Khalif Mu'izz Abu TamimMa'add.

61.The " Durr al Habab fi A'yan Halab " of RadI al Dia

Muhammad, called Ibnu'l Hanbali, f 971 A.H. A veryneatly written MS. of 263 folios, of 27 lines to thepage. Dated 1060 A.H.

SYEIAC.

1.Officium sanctae Hebdomadis Jacobitarum : three volumes ;

copied in 1717 by T. S. Bayer " e codice bombycinoA. Seleucid. 1816 supra fidem eleganter scripto in urbeNicosia Cypri."


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2.

Syriac with Latin Titles.I. "Rudimenta Syriacae Linguae ex autographo (quod ex

manu cognosco) Gasparis de Malauar. Indi HalaeSaxonum descripsi G. S. B[ayer]."

" Libellus Alphabeti Syriaci cum aliquot Precatiunculiset Psalmis necnon Carminibus nonnullis S. Ephraem.Sal. Negri [f 1142 A.H.] descripserat."

II. "Epistolae [8] Mosis Mardeni ad Andream Masium exautographis quae in Bibliotheca BerolinensiRegia sunt."

3.

Syriac and Arabic.I. Syriac: Ordo Baptismatis Sancti domini Severi Patri-

archae: ordo ejus post Clementem : translates est exlingua Graeca in linguam Syriacam per sanctum Dom.Jacobum Rohensem [i.e. of Edessa]. Descripsi Lipsiae. . . . 1717. G. S. Bayer.

II. Arabic: Cbristian-Messianic notes on tbe Psalms ofDavid by Ibnu'l Fadl.

III. Arabic: Homiliae Johannis Chrysostomi duae quasSalomon Negri Romae descripserat.

IV. Syriac: A Sermon of Clement XI delivered in St.Peter's on Easter Sunday, 1711.

4.

The " Book of tbe Cause of all Causes" or of the"Recognition of Truth." Kayser, in the introductionto bis edition of the text, mentions four MSS.—thoseof Berlin, Rome, Bodleian, and Paris, of which thefirst differs in some respects from the rest. TbeHunterian belongs to the group formed by the lastthree, and, amongst these, it agrees with the Roman,where this differs from all the others. It is in theSerto character; and there is no date. It stops at theword ^O*| on p. 269, 1. 12, of Kayser's edition, andimmediately goes on with the extract from the Roman,

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756 AEABIC, SYEIAC, AND HEBREW MANUSCRIPTS.

Bodleian, and Parisian given on p. 270, beginning2>QL* , at the end of which instead of the final ^(Aait reads, <_*S>ol ]&M Q£*»L lol l ]] .

5.Short Syriac Grammar in English.

6.I. The " Hexahemeron " ascribed to Jacob of Edessa.II. The " Physiologus " ascribed to St. Basil.

Dated, Paris, 1636.A notice of this MS. will be found in the Journal

Asiatique for November-December, 1898.

KAESUNI.<1.

The " Taqwimu'l Abdan fi Tadbiri'l Insan" of Yahya 'bn'Isa, Ibn Jazlah, al Baghdadi.

2.Psalter, with Song of Moses and other extracts, copied from

a MS. in the Royal Library, Berlin, in the year 1711.

HEBBEW.

1.The jn&Tl njTTS 1SD of Ishaq ibn Sulaiman.

2.Latin.

" Vocabularium continens praecipuas radices linguaeHebraeae," by William Bogle, 1707.

3.According to a pencilled note at the beginning in the hand-

writing of the late Professor W. Robertson Smith," Mystical Commentary on Genesis (Imperfect)."

. Commencement: 'Ml !T3 W ) *11X b& DB'l.


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