38 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. 



Arrangement and Cataloguing. — The numbers of the 

 sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues and other publica- 

 tions of the Department sent to press in 1913 are : — Armenian 

 and Georgian MSS. Catalogue, 9 sheets ; Burmese Printed 

 Books Catalogue, 23 sheets ; Coptic Texts, vols. iii. and iv., 

 74 sheets; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 7 sheets; Hindi Printed 

 Books Catalogue, 4 sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Amharic, 2; Arabic, 870; Armenian, 15; Assamese, 7 

 Avestan, 10 ; Bengali, 414 ; Burmese, 507 ; Chin, 8 ; Chinese 

 1,166; Ethiopic, 7; Gujarati, 384; Hausa, 4 ; Hebrew, 117 

 liindi, 301 ; Hindustani, 184 ; Javanese, 5 ; Kachin, 6 

 Kanarese, 225; Karen, 2; Khasi, 10; Kurdish, 3; Kuvi, 2 

 Lepcha, 2; Lushai, 6; Malayalam, 173; Marathi, 741 

 Mikir, 2 ; Naga, 2 ; Oriya, 25 ; Pahlavi, 19 ; Palau, 2 ; Pali, 133 

 Panjabi, 24 ; Persian, 1,083 ; Prakrit, 45 ; Pushtu, 5 ; Sanskrit 

 802 ; Santali, 2 ; Savara, 3 ; Shan, 2 ; Siamese, 8 ; Sindhi, 37 

 Sinhalese, 314; Syriac, 38; Tai, 4: Tamil, 461; Telugu, 284 

 Tibetan, 13; Tulu, 1 ; Turkish, 87. Total, 8,569. 



Twenty-nine Hebrew MSS. have been fully catalogued. 



One hundred and sixty-six short descriptions of MSS. have 

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

 Classed Inventory. 



One hundred and seventy-four MSS. (36,622 folios) have 

 been lolioed. 



Publications. — A Hand-list of Arabic MSS. acquired since 

 1894, a supplementary Catalogue of Hindi Printed Books, 

 vol. iii. of the Coptic Texts, and a Catalogue of Armenian 

 and Georgian MSS. have been issued ; and the Catalogue of 

 Burmese Printed Books is now being bound for publication. 



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

 the binders are : — Arabic, Hindustani, and Persian Books, 176 ; 

 Chinese Books, 138; Hebrew Books, 38 ; Mongolian Books, 16; 

 Books in Sanskrit and other Indian languages, 141 ; Tibetan 

 Books, 52; MSS., 217. 



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

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year is 

 3,254. The number of Oriental Printed Books read by them in 

 the Department is 10,743 (6,835 having been issued once only, 

 and 3,908 reserved), and of those used in the Reading Room, 

 2,999. The number of Oriental MSS. read in the Students' 

 Room is 7,431. 



Photography. — One hundred and forty -nine applications 

 have been made to photograph books and MSS. in this 

 Department. 



