S4 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 which were sent to press in 1914 are : — 

 Arabic Printed Books Catalogue, 6 sheets ; Coptic Texts, 

 vols. -i and 5, 7o sheets; Hebrew MSS. Catalogue, 15 sheets; 

 Marathi and Cnjarati Printed Books Catalogue, 19 sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 726 ; Armenian, 2; Assamese, 4; Avestan, 5 ; Bengali, 

 349 ; Burmese, 149 ; Chin, 3 ; Chinese, 1,884 ; Coptic, 10 ; 

 Ethiopic, 1 ; Gujarati. 844 ; Hebrew, 393 ; Hindi, 335 ; Hin- 

 dustani, 420 ; Kachin, 2 ; Kanarese, 140 ; Karen, 9 ; Kashmiri, 

 21 ; Kuvi, 2 ; Malayalam, 23 ; Manipuri, 2 ; Marathi, 298 ; 

 Pahlavi, 27; Pali, 168; Panjabi, 98 ; Persian, 937; Prakrit, 40 ; 

 Pushtu, 27 ; Sanskrit, 1,032 ; Savara, 2 ; Siamese, 7 ; Sindhi, 12 ; 

 Sinhalese, 153; Syriac, 35; Talaing, 5: Tamil, 357; Telugu, 

 358 ; Tibetan, 21 ; Turkish, 22. 



Forty-six Hebrew MSS. have been fully catalogued. 



One hundred and sixty-seven short descriptions of MSS. 

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

 the Classed Inventory. 



One hundred and seventy-four MSS. (24,475 folios) have 

 been folioed. 



Publications. — A Catalogue of Burmese Printed Books and 

 vol. 4 of the Series of Coptic Texts edited by Dr. E. A. Wallis 

 Budge have been issued. 



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

 the binders are : — Arabic, Hindustani, and Persian Books, 162 ; 

 Chinese Books, 55 ; Hebrew Books, 95 ; Books in Sanskrit and 

 other Indian languages, 233; MSS., 431. 



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

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year is 

 2,968. The number of Oriental Printed Books read by them in 

 the Department is 12,968 (7,595 having been issued once only, 

 and 5,373 reserved), and of those used in the Reading Room, 

 3,042. The number of Oriental MSS. read in the Students' 

 Room is 7,191. 



Photography. — Two hundred and eight applications have 

 been made to photograph books and MSS. in this Department. 



Additions. — The num.ber of volumes, pamphlets, &c. added 

 to the collections of the Department during the year is 4,626, 

 of which 4,461 are Printed Books and 165 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 2,256 were bought ; 1,349 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 162 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Acts from Ceylon and Hongkong ; and 

 674 were presented. Of the MSS., 120 were bought and the 

 remainder presented. 



