16 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Renaissance plaquettes ; the Evans collection o£ English coins ; 

 and the Prideaux collection of Oriental coins. Of single objects, 

 special attention may be called to the autograph MSS. of several 

 poems by A. C. Swinburne ; to a Diirer drawing of peculiar 

 importance ; to two early German woodcuts from the Leigh Sotheby 

 collection ; to the clay cylinders of Sennacherib and Esarhaddon ; 

 to the royal guitar of Uganda, formerly presented by Sir F. Lugard 

 to Mr. Joseph Chamberlain ; and to a number of rare coins. 



The Parliamentary grant for the issue of reproductions of works 

 of art to Art Schools and similar institutions has been suspended for 

 the period of the war. 



The following are the publications issued by the Departments at 

 Bloomsbury during the year : — 



Bronze Reliefs from the Gates of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, 

 B.C. 860-825. Edited by L. W. King, M.A., Litt. D. With 

 80 plates. 4to. 11. 15s. 



Select Bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan, in the Departments 

 of Antiquities. 73 plates. With a commentary by H. B. Walters, 

 M.A., F.S.A. 4to. 11. 15s. 



Catalogue of the Engraved Gems of the Post-Classical Periods 

 in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and 

 Ethnography in the British Museum. By 0. M. Dalton, M.A. 

 4to. 11. 5s. 



Select Italian Medals of the Renaissance in the British Museum. 

 Illustrated on 50 plates. Portfolio. 8s. 6d. 



List of Catalogues of English Book Sales, 1676-1900, now in 

 the British Museum. 8vo. 12s. 6d. 



The Codex Alexandrinus (Royal MS. 1 D v-viii) in reduced 

 photographic facsimile. Old Testament. Part I. Genesis-Ruth. 

 4to. Portfolio. 11. 15s. 



Schools of Illumination. Reproductions from Manuscripts in 

 the British Museum. Part II. English : 12th and 13th centt. 

 15 plates. Folio. 175. 6d. 



Miscellaneous Coptic Texts in the Dialect of Upper Egypt. 

 (Coptic Texts. Vol. V.). Edited, with English Translations, by 

 E. A. Wallis Budge, M.A., Litt. D. With 40 plates and 20 illustra- 

 tions in the text. 8vo. 21. 



Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British 

 Museum. By G. Margoliouth, M.A. Part III. Sections VIII, IX. 

 Miscellaneous MSS. ; Charters. 4to. 11. lis. 6d. 



Set of 10 plates illustrating Part III. of the Catalogue of 

 Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. 4to. Ss. ' 



Catalogue of the Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. in the British 

 Museum. By G. Margoliouth, M.A. Part III., complete (Sections 

 I-IX, and 10 plates). 4to. 51. 



Supplementary Catalogue of Marathi and Gujarati Books in the 

 British Museum. By J. F. Blumhardt, M.A. 4to. IZ. 12*. 6d. 



Catalogue of Drawings by Dutch and Flemish Artists preserved 

 in the Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. 

 Vol. I. Drawings by Rembrandt and his School. 8vo. 12^. 



British Museum, Frederic G. Kenyon, 



1 April 1916. Director and Principal Librarian. 



