DEPARTMENT OF OEIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 37 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



Cataloguing and Arrangement. — The numbers of the 

 sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues sent to press in 

 1905 are :— Coptic MSS., 17^ sheets ; Gujarati Accessions, 

 13 sheets; Hebrew MSS., 1^ sheets; Sanskrit Accessions, 

 17 sheets ; Sindhi MSS., 3 sheets. 



The numbers of the Titles written for the Catalogues 

 are : — Amharic,3 ; Arabic, 866 ; Armenian, 141 ; Assamese, 13 

 Baluchi, 5 ; Bengali, 219; Bugis, 2 ; Burmese, 58; Canarese 

 19 ; Chinese, 265 ; Coptic, 5 ; Ethiopic, 23 ; Georgian, 21 

 Gujarati, 104 ; Hebrew, 183 ; Hindi, 276 ; Hindustani, 367 : 

 Japanese, 234 ; Javanese, 26 ; Kashmiri, 2 ; Kurdish 7 : 

 Kurku, 1 ; Kurukh, 2 ; Korean, 95 ; Malay, 4] ; Malayalam 

 180 ; Maltese, 5 ; Mandaitic, 7 ; Marathi, 134 ; Oriya, 24 

 Panjabi, 70; Persian, 968; Pushtu, 13; Sanskrit, 648 

 Santali, 3 ; Sindhi, 57 ; Syriac, 22 ; Tamil, 319 ; Telugu, 361 ; 

 Turki, 4 ; Turkish. 134 ; Zend, 19. 



Sixty-seven Hebrew MSS., 1 Hindustani MS., and 1 

 Persian MS. have been fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 59 MSS. acquired have been entered 

 in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed 

 Inventory. 



Thirteen Printed Books (ff. 2,496) and 60 MSS. (fF. 9,88) 

 have been folio'd. 



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

 to the Binders are : — Arabic Books, 46 ; Chinese Books, 67 ; 

 Hebrew Books, 31; Sanskrit Books, 212; MSS., 130; 

 Pamphlets, 51. 



Students. — The number of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year 

 is 3,552. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted 

 in the Department is 6,330, and of those used in the Reading 

 Room 407. The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the 

 Students' Room is 7,414. 



Photography. — Thirty-one applications have been made 

 to photograph from books and MSS., and 87 negatives have 

 been taken. 



Additions. — The number of works added to the Depart- 

 ment during the year is 1,481, of which 1,379 are Printed 

 Books and 102 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 241 were bought ; 873 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 93 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Act ; and 172 were presented. 



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