DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 41 



Syriac MS. — A Syriac MS. containing Services for the 

 Baptized, &c. 15th century. Some of the contents of this 

 work were before unknown. 



The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted by 

 Readers during 1893 was 3511, and the number of Oriental 

 MSS. consulted during the same period was 2,314. 



Robert K. Douglas. 



Department of Prints and Drawings. 



I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



By arrangement with the heirs and executors of the late 

 John Malcolm, Esq., of Poltalloch. and with the sanction of 

 the Trustees, the celebrated Malcolm collection of drawings 

 and engravings by Old Masters has been temporarily de- 

 posited in the Department of Prints and Drawings, on con- 

 dition that it should be made accessible to students in the 

 same manner as the collections belonging to the Depart- 

 ment. 



The drawings have since been examined and marked off in 

 the printed catalogue, and the engravings examined, re- 

 arranged, and catalogued. 



A series of drawings by Old Masters and a series of en- 

 gravings of the Early German and Italian Schools, taken 

 partly from the Malcolm and partly from the Departmental 

 collections, has been selected and prepared for exhibition in 

 the public gallery of the Department. 



A series of duplicate engravings in seventy-five frames has 

 been lent to the Aberdeen Artists' Society, and returned in 

 good order. 



The work of mounting the etchings by Rembrandt on sunk 

 boards, for their better preservation, has been completed, and 

 the entire collection arranged in the order of Middleton's 

 catalogue in twenty royal and two imperial solander cases. 

 The various states of the etchings have been marked off in 

 Middleton's and Rovinski's catalogues, and a numerical list of 

 the plates, with cross-references to the different published 

 catalogues, has been drawn up. 



The works of the founders of the art of mezzotint en- 

 graving, viz. : L. von Siegen, Prince Rupert, T. C. von Fiirsten- 

 berg, J. Thomas, A. Blooteling, W. Vaillant, B. Vaillant, J. van 

 Somer, P. van Somer, J. Yerkolje, N. Verkolje, and G. Valck, 

 have been taken in hand for mounting, with a view to their 

 arrangement as a sepai'ate series, and the work has been nearly 

 completed. 



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