3)EPARTMENT 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 press in 

 1909 are : - Bengali Books, IG sheets ; Hindustani Books, 5 

 sheets ; Tamil Books, 1 8 sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 49 ,' Assamese, 19; Avestan and Old Persian, 11 ; Baby- 

 lonian, 1; Bengali, 619; Burmese and cognate dialects, 113; 

 •Chinese, 721 ; Coptic, 5; Ethiopic, 8; Gujarati, 116; Hebrew, 

 :225 ; Hindi, 130; Hindustani, 181; Javanese, 2; Kanarese, 

 -334 ; Kashmiri, 5 ; Kui, 2 ; Lahoo, 1 ; Malay, 12 ; Malayalam - 

 •39; Maltese, 3; Marathi, 108; Mongol, 2; Nubian, 4; Oriya', 

 35 ; Pali, 98 ; Panjabi, 13 ; Peguan, 3 ; Persian, 711 ; Prakrit, 5 ; 

 Pushtu, 4 ; Sanskrit, 693 ; Santali, 2 ; Siamese, 4 ; Sindhi, 8 ; 

 ^Sinhalese, 88 ; Syriac, 10 ; Tamil, 488 ; Telugu, 662 ; Tibetan, 7 ; 

 Toda, 3 ; Turkish, 29. 



124 Arabic MSS., 75 Armenian MSS., and 53 Hebrew MSS. 

 liave been fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 511 MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. In 

 •addition, a separate inventory of the entire Nevill collection of 

 Sinhalese, Pali and other MSS. has been prepared, comprising 

 some 2322 entries, with brief descriptions. 



463 MSS. (ff. 59,637) have been folioed. 



Publications. — A Supplementary Catalogue of Hindustani 

 Books, a Catalogue of Tamil Books, and fasc. i. of vol. iii, of 

 the Catalogue of Hebrew MSS. have been issued. 



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

 the binders are: — Arabic and Persian Books, 157; Chinese 

 Books, 191 ; Hebrew Books, 90 ; Mongol Books, 32 ; Sanskrit 

 ^nd other Indian Books, 193 ; Tibetan Books, 72 ; MSS., 474. 



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

 -Students' Room attached to the Department during the year is 

 2678. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in the 

 Department is 7641, and of those used in the Reading Room, 

 2410. The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the 

 Students' Room is 5345. 



Photography. — Eighty-one applications have been made to 

 photograph books and MSS. 



Additions. — The num.ber of volumes and pamphlets added 

 to the Department during the year is 2599, of which 2133 are 

 Printed Books and 412 are MSS. 



