Excerpt from Supplement to the Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the British Museum This rapid increase has been mainly due to the acquisition by the Trustees of six important private collections, Which, taken in the order of purchase, are those of M. Alexandre J aba in 1872, of Sir Charles Augustus Murray in 1875, of major-general Sir Henry C. Rawlinson in 1877, of Alfred Freiherr von Kremer in 1886, of Dr. Eduard Glaser in 1889, and of Mr. Edward William Lane in 1891 and 1893. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.