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 Cata- 

 logues sent to press in 1900 are : — Arabic, 3 sheets ; Chinese 

 (Accessions), 7 sheets ; Coptic MSS., 10 sheets ; Hebrew MSS., 

 1 sheet; Sinhalese MSS., 4 sheets. 



The numbers of Titles written for the Catalogues are : — 

 Arabic, 351 ; Armenian, 52 ; Assamese, 4 ; Bengali, 221 ; 

 Burmese, 86 ; Chinese, 211 ; Coptic, 2 ; Ethiopic, 7 ; 

 Georgian, 14; Gujarati, 196; Gondi, 2; Hebrew, 637; Hindi, 

 221 ; Hindustani, 352 ; Japanese, 62 ; Kashmiri, 2 ; Khasi, 9 ; 

 Malay, 10 ; Maltese, 14 ; Mandaitic, 2 ; Manipuri, 2 ; Marathi, 

 58 ; Naga, 1 ; Oriya, 28 ; Pali-Burmese, 366 ; Panjabi, 45 ; 

 Persian, 115; Pushtu, 37 ; Sanskrit, 748 ; Santali, 6 ; Sindhi, 

 48 ; Syriac, 37 ; Tamil, 62 ; Tibetan, 33 ; Turkish, 63 ; 

 Zend, 12. 



One hundred and four Coptic MSS., 23 Ethiopic MSS., 

 47 Hebrew MSS., 65 Marathi MSS., and 22 Syriac MSS. have 

 been fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 234 MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. 



Two Printed Books (ff. 471), and 223 MSS. (ff. 36,826) have 

 been folioed. 



Binding. 



The numbers of Printed Books and MSS. sent to the binder 

 are : — Arabic Books, 189 ; Chinese Books, 117 ; Hebrew Books, 

 175; Sanskrit Books, 257 ; MSS., 456 ; Pamphlets, 218. 



The number of Students working in the Students' Room 

 attached to the Department during the year is 3,237. The 

 number of Oriental Printed Books consulted in the Depart- 

 ment is 4,453, and of those used in the Reading Room 165. 

 The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the Students' 

 Room is 5,187. 



Additions. 



The number of works added to the Department during the 

 year is 2,373, of which 2,155 are Printed Books, and 218 are 

 MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 446 were bought ; 1,505 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; QQ were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Act ; 138 were presented. 



