DEPAETMENT OF OEIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 35 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



Printing. — The following Catalogue was published in the 

 course of 1895 : the Supplementary Catalogue of Persian 

 MSS. 



The following are the numbers of the sheets of the various 

 Oriental Catalogues which were sent to press : Arabic, 

 13 sheets ; Coptic MSS., 6| sheets ; Hebrew (Accessions) 

 7 sheets ; Hindi (Accessions), 4 sheets ; Japanese, 9 sheets ; 

 Persian MSS., 43 sheets ; Sanskrit (Accessions), 2 sheets. 



Cataloguing. — The following Titles were written for the 

 several Catalogues : Amharic, 27 ; Arabic, 1,631 ; Armenian, 

 203 ; Bengali, 25 ; Canarese, 6 ; Chinese, 448 ; Ethiopic, 69 

 Georgian, 5 ; Gujarati, 103 ; Hebrew, 1,323 ; Hindi, 72 

 Hindustani, 154; Japanese, 78; Malay, 32; Malay alam, 5 

 Maltese, 46 ; Marathi, m ; Panjabi, 11 ; Persian, 66 ; Pushtu, 9 

 Samaritan, 1; Sanskrit, 383; Sindhi, 7; Sinhalese, 1,623 

 Syriac, 155 ; Tamil, 27 ; Telugu, 14 ; and Turkish, 84. 



One Chinese MS., 145 Coptic MSS., 127 Hebrew and 

 Samaritan MSS., 203 Persian MSS., 120 Sanskrit MSS., and 

 9 Sinhalese MSS. were fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 157 newlj^-acquired MSS. were entered 

 in the Descriptive List, and 156 in the Classed Inventory. 

 Forty Hebrew MSS. were collated and examined. Twelve 

 Printed Books (ff. 2,563) and 98 MSS. (fF. 14,737) were folioed. 



Binding. — The following are the numbers of Printed 

 Books and MSS. sent to the binders during the year : 

 Arabic Books, 353 ; Chinese, 233 ; Hebrew, 161 ; Sanskrit 

 135 ; MSS., 156. 



Additions. — The number of works, both printed and in 

 MS., added to the Department during the year was 1,699, of 

 which 1,542 were Printed Books, and 157 were MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 317 were bought, 870 were received 

 under the Indian Copyright Act, 62 under the Colonial 

 Copyright Act, and 293 were nresented. 



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