department of oriental printed books and mss. 37 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



Printing. — The following are the numbers of the sheets of 

 the various Oriental Catalogues which have been sent for 

 Press : Arabic Catalogue, 20 sheets ; Catalogue of Arabic 

 MSS., 64 sheets ; Assamese Catalogue, 1 sheet, completing 

 the Catalogue ; Bengali Accessions, 3 sheets, Hebrew Cata- 

 logue, 19 half-sheets of Index; Descriptive List of Hebrew 

 MSS., 8 sheets, completing the List ; Hindustani Accessions, 

 16 sheets ; Japanese Catalogue, 10 sheets ; Pushtu Catalogue, 

 4 sheets, completing the Catalogue ; and Sanskrit Catalogue, 

 9^ sheets, completing the Catalogue. 



Cataloguing. — The following Titles were written for the 

 several Catalogues: Arabic, 1505; Armenian, 19; Assamese, 

 10; Bengali, 106; Ethiopic, 27; Gujarati, 128 ; Hebrew, 229; 

 Index Titles, 1,897 ; Hindi, 221 ; Hindustani, 549 ; Japanese 

 and Chinese, 327 ; Malay, 15 ; Malayalam, 11 ; Maltese, 16 ; 

 Marathi, 140 ; Panjabi, 69 ; Persian, 44 ; Pushtu, 368 ; Sans- 

 krit, 487 ; Syriac, 159 ; Tamil, 9 ; and Turkish, 8. 



Sixty-six Hebrew MSS. and 26 Sanskrit and Pali MSS. 

 were fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 145 newly acquired MSS. were 

 entered in the Descriptive List, and entries of the same were 

 also made in the Register and the Classed Inventory. 



Twenty three Printed Books and 126 MSS. were folioed. 



Binding. — The following are the numbers of Printed 

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

 Arabic and Persian, 467 ; Chinese, 5 ; Hebrew, 134 ; Sanskrit, 

 268 ; and MSS., 204. 



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

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

 which 1,554 were Printed Books, and 145 were MSS. 



Of the Printed Books 336 were bought, 861 were received 

 under the Indian Copyright Act, 322 under the Colonial 

 Copyright Acts, and 35 were presented. 



Of the MSS., of which a classified list is appended, 136 were 

 bought and 9 were presented. 



Arabic ------ 68 



Armenian ------ 1 



(Including a considerable collection 

 of documents and fragments.) 

 Burmese ------ 2 



Carshunic ------ 1 



0.107. D Chinese 



