DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL 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 the press in 

 1906 are : — Arabic Accessions, 3 sheets ; Gujarati Accessions, 

 3 sheets ; Marathi Accessions, 6 sheets, Sanskrit Accessions, 

 20 sheets. 



The numbers of the Titles written for the various Cata- 

 logues are : — Arabic, 274 ; Armenian, 37 ; Assamese, 17 

 Baluchi, 18; Bengali, 90; Burmese, 114; Canarese, 142 

 Chinese, 734; Coptic, 4; Ethiopic, 10; Garo, 4; Gujarati; 

 125 ; Hebrew, 271 ; Hindi, 221 ; Hindustani, 359 ; Japanese 

 179 ; Kashmiri, 2 ; Kurukh, 6 ; Kurdish, 2 ; Malay, 28 

 Malayalam, 30; Mandaitic, 2; Marathi, 113; Mundari, 2: 

 Nepali, 2; Oriya, ]7 ; Pahlavi, 4; Panjabi, 66; Persian 

 1,343 ; Pushtu, 23 ; Sanskrit, 599 ; Sindhi, 36 ; Sinhalese, 5 

 Syriac, 22 ; Tamil, 168 ; Tigre, 1 : Telugu, 53 ; Tibetan, 

 468 ; Turkish, 28 ; Zend, 10. 



Twenty Arabic MSS. and 33 Hebrew MSS. have been 

 fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 200 MSS. acquired have been entered 

 in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed 

 Inventory. 



Seventy MSS. (ff. 8,956) have been folio'd. 



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

 to the Binders are : — Arabic Books, 120 ; Chinese Books, 64 ; 

 Hebrew Books, 68; Persian Books, 121; Sanskrit Books, 

 229 ; MSS., 92 ; Pamphlets, 57. 



Students. — The number of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year 

 is 3,313. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted 

 in the Department is 5,081, and of those used in the Reading 

 Room 469. The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the 

 Students' Room is 5,594. 



Photography. — Eighty-six applications have been made 

 to photograph from books and MSS. 



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

 ment during the year is 2,204, of which 1,986 are Printed 

 Books and 218 are MSS. Of the Printed Books, 869 were 

 bought ; 733 were received under the India Copyright Act ; 

 46 were received under the Colonial Copytight Act ; and 338 

 were presented. 



