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 press in 

 1904 are :— Coptic MSS., 13 sheets ; Hebrew MSS., 19 sheets ; 

 Japanese Accessions, 6 sheets ; Panjabi Accessions, 8 sheets ; 

 Pushtu MSS., 4 sheets ; Sanskrit Accessions, 16 sheets. 



The numbers of the Titles written for the Catalogues 

 are : — Arabic, 1089 ; Armenian, 170 ; Assamese, 12 ; Assyrian, 

 6; Bengali, 275; Bugis, 4; Burmese, 51; Canarese, 85; 

 Chinese, 283 ; Coptic, 9 ; Ethiopic, 9 ; Gujarati, 122 ; Hebrew, 

 237 ; Hindi, 397; Hindustani, 442; Japanese, 157; Javanese, 

 18 ; Kashmiri, 3 ; Madurese, 6 ; Malay, 22 ; Malayalam, 40 ; 

 Maltese, 61 ; Mandaitic, 3; Marathi, 55 ; Oriya, 25; Panjabi, 

 S6 ; Persian, 382 ; Pushtu, 30 ; Sanskrit, 940 ; Sindhi, 23 ; 

 Sinhalese, 2 ; Sundanese, 4 ; Syriac, 64 ; Tamil, 510 ; Telugu, 

 108 ; Turkish, 104. 



Forty-one Coptic MSS., 21 Hebrew MSS., 60 Pushtu MSS., 

 and 11 Sindhi MSS. have been fully catalogued. 



Short descriptions of the 1,029 MSS. have been entered 

 in the Descriptive List, the Register, and the Classed 

 Inventory. 



Fifty-two MSS. (ff. 8,173) have been folioed. 



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

 to the binders are : — Arabic Books, 269 ; Chinese Books, 106 ; 

 Hebrew Books, 33; Sanskrit Books, 235; MSS., 138; 

 Pamphlets, 176. 



Students. — The number of Students working in the 

 Students' Room attached to the Department during the year 

 is 3,595. The number of Oriental Printed Books consulted 

 in the Department is 6,464, and of those used in the Reading 

 Room 333. The number of Oriental MSS. consulted in the 

 Students' Room is 5,734. 



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

 ment during the jesbY is 2,415, of which ],S8 3 are Printed 

 Books and 1,029 are MSS. 



Of the Printed Books, 271 were bought ; 903 were received 

 "under the India Copyright Act ; 56 were received under the 

 Colonial Copyright Act ; and 156 were presented. 



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