DEPAETMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 35 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. 



Printing. — The following are the numbers of the sheets of 

 the various Oriental Catalogues which have been sent for 

 Press : Arabic Catalogue, 16 sheets ; Hebrew Catalogue, 10 

 sheets, with 8 half-sheets of Index ; Hindi Catalogue, 12 

 sheets, with 7 half -sheets of Index, completing the Catalogue ; 

 Japanese Catalogue, 7 sheets; Panjabi Catalogue 3 sheets, and 

 1 half-sheet of Index ; Sanskrit Catalogue, 12 sheets ; Sindhi 

 Catalogue, 1 sheet and 1 half- sheet of index, completing the 

 Catalogue ; Catalogue of Arabic MSS., 33 sheets ; Descriptive 

 List of Hebrew MSS., 1 sheet. 



Cataloguing. — The following Titles were written for the 

 several Catalogues : Arabic, 1541 ; Persian, 74; Turkish, 20 

 Tamil, 25 ; Armenian, 12 ; Malay, 8 ; Maltese, 2 ; Georgian, 1 

 Ethiopic, 1 ; Hebrew, 324 ; Japanese, 270 ; Sanskrit, 450 

 Syriac, 136 ; Hindi, 75 ; Bengali, 226 ; Marathi, 195 ; Gujarati, 

 205; Hindustani, 287; Panjabi, 87; Sindhi, 317; and 

 Pushtu, 224. 



A classified Descriptive List of the Hebrew and Samaritan 

 MSS., containing about 1,250 entries, was prepared and sent 

 to the printer ; 51 Hebrew MSS. were fully catalogued, and 

 the descriptions of 42 others were revised. 



The Descriptive List of the Oriental MSS. acquired in 1892 

 was transcribed for the use of readers. The same MSS. 

 were entered into the Oriental Kegister and the Oriental 

 Inventory. 



Twenty one MSS. were folioed. 



Binding. — The following are the numbers of Printed 

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

 Arabic, 82 ; Chinese and Japanese, 256 ; Hebrew, 255 ; 

 Sanskrit and other Indian works, 165 ; MSS., 158. 



All Oriental MSS., with the exception of those in the 

 Egerton and Grenville Collections, were removed from the 

 MS. Department to the new Department of Oriental Printed 

 Books and MSS. 



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

 MS., added to the Department during the year was 1,214, of 

 which 1,167 were Printed Books, and 47 MSS. 



Of the Printed Books 425 were bought, 711 were received 

 under the Indian Copyright Act, and 31 were presented. 



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