DEPARTMENT OF ORIENTAL PRINTED BOOKS AND MSS. 37 



Department of Oriental Printed Books and 

 Manuscripts. 



^ Cataloguing and Arrangement.— Hhe numbers of the 

 sheets of the various Oriental Catalogues sent to press in 

 1902 are: — Chinese (Accessions), 8 sheets ; Coptic MSS., 

 4 sheets; Gujarati MSS., 7 sheets ; Hebrew MSS., 14 sheets; 

 Hindi (Accessions), 17^ sheets ; Sanskrit MSS,, S sheets. 



The numbers of the Titles written for the Catalogues 

 are :^Arabic, 406 ; Armenian, 239 ; Assamese, 49 ; Assyrian, 3 

 Batak, 3; Bengali, 393; Biluchi, 2; Burmese, 140; Canarese 

 11; Chinese, 481; Coptic, 4; Ethiopic, 12; Gujarati, 128 

 Hebrew, 409 ; Hindi, 406 ; Hindustani, 388 ; Japanese, 130 

 Javanese, 3 ; Ka, 2 ; Kashmiri, 6 ; Xhasi, 3 ; Korean, 10 

 Malay, 24; Maltese, 37; Manipuri, 4; Marathi, 77; Oriya, 70 

 Panjabi, 65 ; Persian, 183 ; Pushtu, 32 ; Sanskrit and Pali 

 1,0.52; Santali, 7; Sindhi, 29; Sinhalese, 6; Syriac, 28 

 Tamil, 142 ; Telugu, 9 ; Tibetan, 7 ; Turkish, 72 ; Zend, 18. 



Five Assamese MSS., 26 Bengali MSS., 63 Coptic MSS., 

 16 Hebrew MSS., 1 Karshuni MS., 11 Oriya MSS., 10 Pushtu 

 MSS., and 12 Syriac MSS. have beenfully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of 189 MSS. have been entered in the 

 Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed Inventory. 



One hundred and forty-four MSS. (ff. 26,280) have been 

 folioed. 



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

 to the binders are: — Arabic Books, 309; Chinese Books, 57; 

 Hebrew Books, 90; Sanskrit Books, 323; MSS., 194 ; 

 Pam.phlets, 235. 



Students. — The number of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year 

 is 2,987. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted 

 in the Department is 4,269, and of those used in the Reading 

 Room 138, The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the 

 Students' Room is 4,923. 



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

 ment during the year is 1,870, of which 1,681 are Printed 

 Books, and 189 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 179 were bought ; 1,287 were received 

 under the India Copyright Act ; 59 were received under the 

 Colonial Copy light Act ; and 156 were presented. 



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