DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL MSS. 31 



Copy of the letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo de'Medici 

 on his third voyage to America in 1501. Belonged to 

 Marino Sanuto, the Venetian historian (oh. 1535). 



Letters, memorials, etc., of Hernando Cortes to the Emperor 

 Charles V. ; 1522-1544. Spanish. Certified copies from the 

 originals. 18th century. 



Annual Letters from Jesuit missionaries in Japan to their 

 general, Martio Vitelleschi ; 1625-1627. An English version 

 made, circ. 1632-1642, by Thomas Somerset, son of Henry 

 Somerset, Earl of Worcester, and dedicated to his father ; 

 apparently in his own hand. 



Description of the Black Sea and the Crimea, by Emidio 

 Dortelli, Prefect of CafFa ; 1634. Italian. 



Narrative by Count Magalotti of the travels in England of 

 Cosmo III., Grand Duke of Tuscany, when Prince Hereditary. 

 in 1669. Italian. A transcript (19th century) of the original 

 at Florence, with copies of the forty large views, in Indian-ink, 

 of towns, noblemen's seats, etc. 



Geographical collections of Alexander Dalrymple, Hydro- 

 grapher to the East India Company and the Admiralty, 

 including accounts of Madagascar, Mauritius, Ascension, etc. 

 Late 18th century. 



Cancionero, or collection of poems in Spanish and Portu- 

 guese, by various authors. Early 16th century. 



" Dictionnaire Francois et Congo " ; without name of 

 author, but dated 1772. 



Echuard Scott. 



Department of Oriental Manuscripts. 



I. — Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



The Descriptive List of the Oriental MSS. acquired in 1889 

 has been transcribed for the use of readers. The same MSS. 

 have been entered into the Oriental Register and the Oriental 

 Inventory. 



The MSS. acquired in 1890 have been added to the De- 

 scriptive List, and entered into the indexes of the printed 

 special catalogues. 



Three hundred and twenty-four MSS. have been described 

 in full for the Supplementary Arabic Catalogue. 



Fifty-six MSS. have been described in detail for the Hebrew 

 Catalogue, and the description of 15 MSS. have been revised 

 for the same catalogue. 



A collection of 53 Syriac and Carshunic MSS. has been 

 arranged, described, and prepared for the binder. 



Two hundred and twenty-seven MSS. have been folio'd, 

 labelled, and bound. 



