ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Oriental Piunted Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



Printing. — The following catalogues were published in the 

 course of 1894 : The catalogue of Hindi, Panjabi, Sindhi, and 

 Pushtu Books ; the supplement to the catalogue of Arabic 

 MSS. ; the first volume of the catalogue of Arabic books ; 

 and the Supplementary Catalogue of Hebrew Books. 



The following are the numbers of the sheets of the various 

 Oriental Catalogues which were sent for Press ; Arabic 

 Catalogue, 17| sheets ; Catalogue of Arabic MSS., 21 sheets ; 

 Gujarati Accessions, 8| sheets ; Hebrew Catalogue, 10 sheets ; 

 Hindustani Accessions, 6 sheets ; Japanese Catalogue, 6 

 sheets ; Marathi Accessions, 6 sheets ; Oriya Catalogue, 5 

 sheets; Sanskrit Accessions, 8 sheets. 



Cataloguing. — The following Titles were written for the 

 several Catalogues : Arabic, 1676; Armenian, 135; Assamese, 

 15; Bengali, 319; Bhatkali, 3; Brahui, 5; Chinese, 241; 

 Coptic, 7 ; Ethiopic, 10 ; Gujarati, 185 ; Hebrew, 1,344 ; Hindi, 

 190 ; Hindustani, 232 ; Japanese, 79 ; Kashmiri, 2 ; Maltese, 

 12 ; Marathi, 122 ; Mech, 3 ; Oriya, 415 ; Panjabi, 43 ; Persian, 

 151; Pushtu, 8; Samaritan, 1; Sanskrit, 359; Santali, 17; 

 Sindhi, 41 ; Sinhalese, 48 ; Syriac, 300 ; Tamil, 14 ; and 

 Turkish, 52. 



One hundred and twenty-eight Hebrew MSS., 223 Persian 

 MSS., and 158 Sanskrit and Pali MSS. were fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 90 newl}^ acquired MSS. were entered 

 in the Descriptive List, and 145 were entered in the Classed 

 Inventory. Thirty Hebrew MSS. were collated and examined, 

 and considerable advance was made in the Catalogue of Coptic 

 MSS. 



Twenty five Printed Books and 100 MSS. were folioed. 



Binding. — The following are the numbers of Printed 

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

 Arabic 408 ; Chinese, 103 ; Hebrew, 87 ; Hindi, 23 ; Sanskrit 

 151 ; MSS., 180. 



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

 MS., added to the Department during the year was 3,134, of 

 which 3,021 were Printed Books, and 113 were MSS. 



Of the Printed Books 1,080 were bought, 1,400 were received 

 under the Indian Copyright Act, 159 under the Colonial 

 Copyright Acts, and 382 were presented. 



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