32 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



The numbers of the sheets of the various Oriental Cata- 

 logues sent to press in 1896, are :— Arabic, 9 sheets ; Coptic 

 MSS., 4 sheets ; Hebrew (Accessions), 5 sheets ; Hindi, 

 5 sheets ; Hindustani, 6 sheets ; Japanese, 4 sheets ; Sanskrit, 

 6| sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Angami Naga, 11; Arabic, 1,314; Armenian, 310; Assamese 

 10; Bengali, 196; Bugis, 5; Canarese, 8; Chinese, 134 

 Coptic, 9; Ethiopic, 11; Garo, 20; Gujarati, 163; Hebrew 

 656; Hindi, 153; Hindustani, 220 ; Japanese, 481 ; Javanese 

 21 ; Kachari, 4 ; Kashmiri, 4 ; Khasi, 7 ; Kol, 5 ; Makassar, 4 

 Malay, 34; Maltese, 22; Manipuri, 9 ; Marathi, 100; Mikir, 4 

 Mondari, 4 ; Oraon, 16 ; Oriya, 33 ; Panjabi, 12 ; Persian, 157 

 Pushtu, 10 ; Sangi, 1 ; Sanskrit, 199 ; San tali, 15 ; Sindhi, 16 

 Sinhalese, 139 ; Sunda, 5; Syriac, 40; Tamil, 10; Tibetan, 5 

 Zend, 10. 



Twelve Coptic MSS.; 131 Hebrew and Samaritan MSS.; 113 

 Hindustani MSS.; 99 Sanskrit MSS.; and 77 Sinhalese MSS.; 

 were fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 73 MSS. were entered in the De- 

 scriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. The 

 descriptions of 167 Hebrew M.SS.were revised. Nineteen 

 Printed Books (ff. 44,64), and 143 MSS. (ff. 18,609) were 

 folioed. 



The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted by 

 readers during the year was 6,514, and the number of Oriental 

 MSS., 5,408. 



Binding. 

 The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to the binders 

 are : Arabic Books, 289 ; Chinese Books, 292 ; Hebrew Books, 

 173; Sanskrit Books, 118; MSS., 213; Pamphlets, 182. 



Additions. 



The number of works added to the Department during the 

 year was 1,610, of which 1,535 were Printed Books and 75 

 were MSS. 



