DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 35 



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 1898, are : —Arabic, 3 sheets ; Bengali 

 (Accessions), 12 sheets ; Coptic MSS., 8 sheets ; Hebrew 

 MSS., 24 sheets ; Japanese, 1 sheet ; Sanskrit MSS., 30 sheets ; 

 Sinhalese MSS., Ill sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 706 ; Armenian, 152 ; Assamese, 4 ; Bengali, 132 

 Burmese, 1; Chinese, 261; Ethiopic, 3; Gujarati, 184 

 Hebrew, 479 ; Hindi, 103 ; Hindustani, 184 ; Japanese, 433 

 Javanese, 2; Khasi, 4; Lushai, 4; Malay, 21; Maltese, 30 

 Manipuri, 4; Marathi, 151; Mondari, 2; Naga, 2; Oriya, IQ 

 Pahlavi, 3 ; Panjabi, 22 ; Persian, 191 ; Pushtu, 21 ; Sanskrit 

 557; Santali, 2 ; Sindhi, 31 ; Sinhalese, 254 ; Syriac, 15 ; Tamil, 

 16; Turkish, 114. 



Five Coptic MSS., 7 Hebrew and Samaritan MSS., 55 

 Hindi MSS., 6 Sanskrit MSS., and 6 Sinhalese MSS. have 

 been fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 163 MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. 

 The descriptions of 3 Hebiew and Samaritan MSS., and 

 394 Sinhalese Titles, have been revised. Four Printed 

 Books (ff. 479), and 78 MSS. (ff. 12472) have been folioed. 



The Students' Room attached to the Department was 

 opened on March 7th, and the number of Students working 

 in the Room from that date to the end of the year is 2,136. 



The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in 

 the Students' Room attached to the Department (March — 

 December) is 2,534, and of those used in the Reading Room 

 1,018. In the same way 3,821 Oriental MSS. were consulted 

 in the Students' Room attached to the Department and 362 

 in the Students' Boom of the Department of MSS. (January 

 and February). 



Binding. 



The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to the binder's 

 are : — Arabic Books, 249 ; Chinese Books, 286 ; Hebrew Books, 

 191 ; Sanskrit Books, 121 ; MSS., 196 ; Pamphlets, 159. 



Additions. 



The number of works added to the Department during the 

 year is 1,641, of which 1,486 are Printed Books and 155 are 



MSS. 



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