DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS* 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. 



Arrangement arid Cataloc/uing. — The number o£ the sheets o£ the 

 Catalogue of Persian Printed Books sent to press in 1919 was 1. 



The number of Titles written for the Catalogues is : — Arabic, 

 109 ; Assamese, 26 ; Bengali, 435 : Burmese, 73 ; Chinese, 92 

 Gujarati, 404 ; Hebrew, 155 ; Hindi, 578 ; Hindustani, 178 

 Japanese, 39 ; Javanese, 4 ; Kachin, 5 ; Kanarese, 188 ; Karen, 21 

 Kashmiri, 15 ; Kond, 2 ; Kurdish, 3 ; Lahu, 3 ; Malay, 62 

 Malayalam, 67 ; Maltese, 2 ; Marathi, 284 ; Mardia, 2 ; Mundari, 8 

 Naoa, 5; Oriya, 110; Pali, 45; Panjabi, 16; Persian, 1,203 

 Prakrit, 102 ; Sanskrit, 816 ; iSantali, 11 ; Sindhi, 2 ; Sinhalese 

 33 ; Syriac, 6 ; Talaing, 6 ; Tamil, 721 ; Telugu, 551 ; Tibetan 

 39 ; Tulu, 3 ; Turkish, 11 ; Total, 6,453. 



One thousand four hundred and thirty-four Chinese MSS. have 

 been catalogued for the Hand-list of the Stein Collection. 



Thirty-seven short descriptions of MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. 



Twenty-five MSS. (4,832 folios) and one printed book (128 

 folios) have been folioed. 



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

 binders is : — Arabic, Persian, and Hindustani Books, 16 ; Armenian 

 Books, 3 ; Chinese Books, 3 ; Coptic Books, 1 ; English Books, 1 ; 

 Hebrew Books, 29 ; Javanese Books, 1 ; Malay Books, 1 ; Books 

 in Sanskrit and other Indian languages, 189 ; Syriac Books, 1 ; 

 Tibetan Books, 1 ; Turkish Books, 1 ; MSS., 314. 



Students. — The number of visits of Students to the MS. Students' 

 Room during the year is 888. The number of Oriental MSS. used 

 by them is 2,403, and the number of Oriental Printed Books used in 

 the Reading Room 3,386. 



Photography . — Fifty-nine applications have been made to photo- 

 graph books and MSS. in this Department. 



Additions. — The number of volumes, etc., added to the collections 

 of the Department during the year (exclusive of the Stein Collection) 

 is 2,768, of which 2,361 are Printed Books and 407 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 57 were bought ; 2,059 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 99 were received under the Colonial 

 Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong ; and 146 were 

 presented. Of the MSS., 398 were bought and the remainder 

 presented. 



