DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 23 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. 



Arrangement and Cataloguing. — The numbers o£ the sheets o£ 

 the various Oriental Catalogues and other publications of the 

 Department which were sent to press in 1915 are: — Arabic Printed 

 Books Catalogue, 14 sheets ; Coptic Texts, vol. 5, ^2 sheets ; Gujarati 

 Printed Books Catalogue, 19 sheets ; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 7| 

 sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — Abor 

 Miri, 2 ; Arabic, 389 ; Assamese, 24 ; Avestan, 5 ; Bengali, 733 ; 

 Bodo, 14 ; Burmese, 169 ; Cachari, 2 ; Chin, 2 ; Chinese, 2,506 ; 

 Gujarati, 186 ; Hebrew, 261 ; Hindi, 502 ; Hindustani, 599 ; Ho, 

 4 ; Kachin, 5 ; Kanarese, 131 ; Karen, 14 ; Kashmiri, 7 ; Khasi, 

 12 ; Kurku, 6 ; Lakher, 2 ; Lushai, 15 ; Malayalam, 44 ; Manipuri, 

 6 ; Marathi, 39 ; Mundari, 11 ; Naga, 2^ ; Oriya, 35 ; Pali, 117 ; 

 Panjabi, 170 ; Persian, 384 ; Prakrit, 44 ; Pushtu, 4 ; Sanskrit, 

 567 : Santali, 10 ; Savara, 2 ; Siamese, 2 ; Sindhi, 9 ; Sinhalese, 

 115 ; Syriac, 28 ; Taking, 2 ; Tamil, 471 ; Telugu, 437 ; Tibetan, 

 3 ; Turkish, 55. Total, 8,171. 



65 Hebrew MSS. and 45 Indian Charters have been fully 

 catalogued. 



32 short descriptions of MSS. have been entered in the Descrip- 

 tive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. 



125 MSS. (7,885 folios) have been folioed. 



Publications. — Vol. 5 of the Series of Coptic Texts edited by 

 Dr. E. A. Wallis Budge, a Supplementary Catalogue of Marathi 

 and Gujarati Printed Books, and part 3 of the Catalogue of Hebrew 

 MSS. have been issued. 



Binding. — The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to the 

 Binders are : — Arabic, Hindustani, and Persian Books, 32 ; Chinese 

 Books, 37 ; Hebrew Books, 41 ; Books in Sanskrit and other 

 Indian languages, 183 ; MSS., 170. 



Students. — The number of visits of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year was 

 2,705. The number of Oriental Printed Books read by them in the 

 Department was 16,954 (7,873 of which were issued once only, and 

 9,081 reserved) and of those used in the Reading Room, 2,359. 

 The number of Oriental MSS. read in the Students' Room was 5,450. 



Photography. — 25 applications have been made to photograph 

 books and MSS. in this Department. 



Additions. — The number of volumes, pamphlets, etc., added to 

 the collections of the Department during the year is 2,041, of which 

 2,020 are Printed Books and 21 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 119 were bought ; 1,698 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 81 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong ; 2 were 



