DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 41 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. — The numbers of the 

 sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues and other publica- 

 tions of the Department sent to press in 1911 are : — -Armenian 

 MSS. Catalogue, 25 ; Index to Chinese Encyclopsedia, 11|- ; 

 Coptic Texts,l4; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 11 ; Telugu Printed 

 Books Catalogue, 10. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 209 ; Armenian, 4 ; Assamese, 29 ; Avestan, 25 ; 

 Baluchi, 5 ; Bengali, 441 ; Brahui, 2 ; Burmese, 308 ; Chinese,. 

 766 ; Ethiopic, 8 ; Gujarati, 151 ; Hebrew, 72 ; Hindi, 718 ; 

 Hindustani, 504 ; Kannada, 143 ; Karen, 5 ; Kashmiri, 4 ; 

 Khassi, 2 ; Khond, 2 ; Laos, 1 ; Lushai, 20 ; Malay, 4 ; Mala- 

 yalam, 79 ; Manipuri, 20 ; Marathi, 195 ; Mon (Talaing), 7 ; 

 Naga, 2; Oriya, 78; Pali, 134; Panjabi, 53; Persian, 933; 

 Prakrit, 18 ; Sanskrit, 865 ; Santali, 9 ; Siamese, 25 ; Sindhi, 29; 

 Sinhalese, 68; Sunda, 8; Syriac, 19; Tamil, 480; Telugu, 673- 

 Tibetan, 17; Toda, 2; Tulu, 7 ; Turkish, 39. Total, 7,183. 



Twenty-nine Hebrew MSS. have been fully catalogued. 



One hundred and fifteen short descriptions of MSS. have 

 been entered in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the 

 Classed Inventory. 



Fifty-three MSS. (9,109 ff.) have been lolioed. 



Two Exhibition- cases in the King's Library have been 

 cleared of their former contents, the place of which has been 

 taken by a number of select miniatures of the best Persian and 

 Indo-Persian schools, which have been duly arranged and 

 furnished with brief descriptions. 



Publications. — ^An Index to the Chinese Encyclopsedia (T'u 

 Shu) has been issued. 



Binding. — The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to 

 the binders are : — Arabic and Persian Books, 158 ; Chinese 

 Books, 181 ; Hebrew Books, 1 ; Mongolian Books, 11; Books in 

 Sanskrit and other Indian languages, 273 ; Tibetan Books, 16 ; 

 MSS., 111. 



Students. — The number of visits of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year is 

 2,617. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in 

 the Department is 7,096 (4,392 being issued once only, and 

 2,704 reserved), and of those used in the Reading Room, 2,507. 

 The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the Students' Room 

 Ls 6,671. 



Photography. — Ninety-six applications have been made to 

 photograph books and MSS. in this Department. 



Additions. — The num-ber of volumes and pamphlets added 

 to the Department during the year is 2,388, of which 2,273 are 

 Printed Books and 115 are MSS. 



