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the autograph MS. of Carlyle's Past and Present, presented by Mr. 

 Gabriel Wells. 



Among the principal accessions to the Department of Printed Books 

 were the only known copy of the first edition of a work by the famous 

 Arab medical writer, Rhasis, bequeathed by the late Sir William Osier ; 

 some valuable English tracts from the Petv/orth sale ; facsimiles of the 

 Washington MS. of the Minor Prophets, presented by the University of 

 Michigan, and of the Codex Argenteus of the Gothic Gospels, presented 

 by the University of Uppsala ; and the first volume of the Ashendene 

 Don Quixote, presented by C. H. St. John Hornby, Esq. 



The Department of Manuscripts received on indefinite loan from the 

 Baptist College, Bristol, some small but precious fragments of the 

 Cottonian MS. of Genesis in Greek, of the fifth century. It also acquired 

 the Chartulary of Ely Cathedral and a number of tracts and plays from 

 the Petworth sale ; an illustrated volume of astrological and historical 

 tracts written in North Italy about 1440 ; an illustrated Latin Herbal 

 from Italy of the fifteenth century, and a letter-book of Cardinal Pole. 

 It was also fortunate in respect of autograph copies of literary and 

 musical works. Outstanding among these was the original autograph 

 of Carlyle's Past and Present, which Mi. Gabriel Wells of New York 

 purchased, with a later draft, at auction for £2,200, subsequently 

 offering the Museum its choice of either copy. Others were the auto- 

 graph MS. of J. S. Mill's Logic, in 4 volumes ; the original scores of 

 Sir Charles Stanford's setting of Tennyson's Revenge and of Grieg's 

 Foran Syden's Kloster ; and a number of autograph scores by Bach, 

 Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Weber, presented by 

 Mr. E. P. Warren in fulfilment of the wish of the late Mr. Ernst Perabo. 



The Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. benefited by a 

 gift of 47 Persian, nine Turkish and one Arabic MSS., including many 

 with fine illustrations, presented by P. S. Greenshields, Esq. It also 

 received from the Imperial University of Tokyo a facsimile of a very 

 ancient Chinese MS. of the Commentary of Prince Shotoku, the principal 

 founder of Japanese Buddhism ; and it acquired by purchase a beauti- 

 fully written copy of Tusi's Commentary upon Ibn Sina, written in 

 A.D. 1276. 



The Department of Prints and Drawings was enabled to purchase 

 nearly 450 selected prints of foreign schools (mostly portraits) from the 

 Northwick Park collection ; and also acquired some early prints from 

 Messrs. Boerner's sale at Leipzig. Of single acquisitions the most 

 noticeable were the portrait of Maximilian I by Albrecht Diirer, pre- 

 sented by four friends through the National Art -Collections Fund ; a 

 woodcut of St. Anne from the Mainz Missal of 1518 ; a rare portrait of 

 Mary, Queen of Scots, by Wierix ; the portrait of Charles II by Sherwin 

 acquired from the Gilbertson sale by the National Art -Collections Fund 

 and presented in memory of Sir Sidney Colvin ; and a portrait of 

 A. Proust by Rodin, presented by C. S. Gulbenkian, Esq. The Oriental 

 section of the Department purchased a large hand-coloured print by 

 Okumura Masanobu, and received by bequest from the late James Orange, 

 Esq. a number of paintings by the late Japanese artist Zeshin; and a 

 Japanese screen by Tosa Mitsuaki was deposited on permanent loan by 

 the Hon. Mrs. R. Wood. 



The Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities was 

 conspicuously enriched by the wonderful discoveries of Ur, a large 

 proportion of which remain in the Museum, while the most important of 



