32 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. 



ArrangeTfient and Cataloguing. — The numbers of the 

 sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues and other publica- 

 tions of the Department sent to press in 1912 are: — ^Arabic 

 MSS. Hand list, 8 sheets ; Armenian MSS. Catalogue, 20 sheets ; 

 Coptic Texts, vols. 2-3, 41 sheets ; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 12 

 sheets; Hindi Printed Books Catalogue, 27 sheets; Telugu 

 Printed Books Catalogue, S sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 1,073 ; Assamese, 33 ; Avestan, 3 : Baylonian, 1 

 Bali, 1 ; Bengali, 585 ; Burmese, 324 ; Cambojian, 1 ; Chin, 1 

 Chinese, 1,335; Coptic, 10; Ethiopic, 7; Georgian, 11 

 Gujarati, 105 ; Hebrew, 72 ; Hindi, 922 ; Hindustani, 442 

 Kanarese, 250; Kanauri, 1; Karen, 11; Khassi, 3; Kui, 6 

 Kurku, 2; Kuvi, 1; Laos, 1; Lushai, 5; Mahiyalam, 33 

 Marathi, 118; Mundari, 6; Naga, 6; Ora'on, 2: Oriya, 73 

 Pahari, 2 ; Pahlavi, 5 ; Pali, 192 ; Panjabi, 78 ; Persian, 949 

 Prakrit, 18 ; Pushtu, 13 ; Sanskrit, 1,119; Shan, 4 ; Siamese, 14 

 Sindhi, 22; Sinhalese, 91; Syriac, 18; Tai, 1: Tamil, 615 

 Taungthu, 2 ; Telugu, 609 ; Tibetan, 12 ; Tulu, 7 : Turkish, 32. 

 Total, 9,247. 



Six Georgian MSS. and 16 Hebrew MSS. have been fully 

 catalogued. 



Ninety-four short descriptions of MSS. have been entered 

 in the Descriptive List, the Eegister, and the Classed Inven- 

 tory. 



One hundred and thirty-nine MSS. (15,966 folios) have I^een 

 lolioed. 



The exhibition of Chinese and Japanese printed books and 

 woodcut pictures in the King's Library has been rearranged, 

 and new descriptions have been M^ritten where necessary. 



Publications. — Vol. 2 of the Coptic Texts (containing 

 versions of Deuteronomy, Jonah, and Acts), the second fasci- 

 cule of vol. 3 of the Catalogue of Hebrew MSS., and a Catalogue 

 of Telugu Printed Books have been issued. 



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

 the binders are: — Arabic and Persian Books, 179; Chinese 

 Books, 231 ; Hebrew Books, 54 ; Mongolian Books, 27; Books in 

 Sanskrit and other Indian languages, 239 ; Tibetan Books, 87 ; 

 MSS., 165. 



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

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year is 

 2,446. The number of Oriental Printed Books read by them in 

 the Department is 7,229 (4,756 having been issued once only, 

 and 2,473 reserved), and of those used in the Reading Room,, 

 3,236. The number of Oriental MSS. read in the Students" 

 Room is 5,476. 



