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 1897, are : — Arabic, 11 sheets ; Coptic 

 MSS., 2 sheets; Gujarati (Accessions), 4 sheets; Hebrew 

 (Accessions), 5| sheets ; Hebrew MSS., 5 sheets ; Hindustani 

 MSS., 13 sheets; Japanese, 4|^ sheets ; Sanskrit (Accessions), 

 ^ sheets; Sanskrit MSS., 1 sheet; Sinhalese MSS., 

 10 sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogue are : — 

 Angami Naja, 2; Arabic, 1,208; Armenian, 291; Assamese, 

 7 ; Bengali, 363 ; Bugis, 2 ; Burmese, 5 ; Chinese, 93 ; Ethiopic, 

 2; Garo, 4; Gujarat'i, 40 ; Hebrew, 401 ; Hindi, 149; Hindu- 

 stani, 404 ; Japanese, 312 ; Javanese, 2 ; Khassi, 2 ; Kond, 9 ; 

 Malay, 59; Maltese, 27; Manipuri, 4 ; Marathi, 55; Mondari, 6 ; 

 Oriya, 11; Panjabi, 63 ; Persian, 145; Pushtu, 54 ; Sanskrit, 

 271 ; Santali, 4 ; Sindhi, 28 ; Sinhalese, 179 ; Syriac, 49 ; Tamil, 

 10; Turkish, 50. 



One hundred and forty-eight Hebrew and Samaritan MSS., 

 157 Sanskrit MSS., and 46 Sinhalese MSS. have been fully 

 catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 224 MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. 

 The descriptions of 50 Hebrew and Samaritan MSS. ; 55 

 Sanskrit MSS. ; and 139 Sinhalese MSS., have been revised. 

 Fifteen Printed Books (ff. 2769), and 247 MSS. (ff. 29001) 

 have been folioed. 



The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted by 

 readers during the year is 5,138, and the number of Oriental 

 MSS. 3,024. 



Binding. 



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

 are : Arabic Books, 221 ; Chinese Books, 176 ; Hebrew Books, 

 17; Sanskrit Books, 200; MSS., 127; Pamphlets, 226. 



Additions. 

 The number of works added to the Department during the 

 year is 1,999, of which 1,768 are Printed Books and 231 are 



MSS. 



