DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 27 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. 



Arrangement and Cataloguing. — Tlie number of the sheets of 

 the Catalogue of Persian Printed Books sent to press in 1920 

 was 25. 



The number of titles written for the Catalogues is : — 

 Arabic, 723; Armenian, 3; Assamese, 24; Bengali, 272 

 Brahui, 2; Burmese, 54; Chin, 8; Chinese, 111; Coptic, 2 

 Gujarati, 124; Hebrew and Samaritan, 694; Hindi, 300; Hindu 

 stani, 184; Japanese, 25; Kachin, 6; Kanarese, 89; Karen, 12 

 Kashmiri, 44; ]^hasi, 6; Kond, 3; Malay, 188; Malayalam, 10 

 Mandaean, 8; Manipuri, 3; Marathi, 144; Mikir, 6; Naga, 3 

 jN'orth Arvan (Khotanese), 2; Oriya, 71; Pali, 23; Panjabi, 87 

 Persian, 664; Prakrit, 64; Pushtu, 4; Sanskrit, 435; Santali, 3 

 Siamese, 9; Sindhi, 16; Sinhalese, 11; Syriac, 40; Talaing, 8 

 Tamil, 328; Telugu, 266; Tibetan, 58; Total, 5,137. 



One thousand one hundred and thirteen Chinese MSS. have 

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



One hundred and thirteen short descriptions of MSS. have 

 been entered in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the 

 Classed Inventory. 



Three hundred and eighty-nine MSS. (71,779 folios) and seven 

 printed books (1,017 folios) have been folioed. 



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

 the binders is: — Arabic, Persian and Hindustani Books, 57; 

 Chinese Books, 9; English Books, 4; French Books, 1; Hebrew 

 Books, 146 ; Malay Books, 1 ; Books in Sanskrit and other' Indian 

 languages, 124; Siamese Books, 25; Uighur Books, 2; MSS., 

 379. Total, 748. 



Students. — The number of visits of Students to the Oriental 

 Students' Room attached to this Department during the year is 

 1,926. The number of Oriental MSS. used by them is 2,295, and 

 the number of Oriental Printed Books used by them is 12,357. 

 1,910 Oriental Printed Books were used in the Reading Room. 



Photography. — One hundred and thirty-two applica'tions have 

 been made to photograph books and MSS. in this Department. 



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

 lections of the Department during the year is 1,890, of which 

 1,817 are Printed Books and 73 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 327 were bought; 1,295 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 21 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Act from Ceylon; and 184 were presented. 

 Of the MSS., 57 were bought and the remainder presented. 



