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first edition ; a Psalter combining the Sarum and York uses, Paris, 

 1522 ; R. Crowley's Fable of Philargyrie, 1551 (presented by the Keeper 

 of Printed Books) ; Mercator's Atlas, 1595 ; and Henry Crosse's 

 Vertues Commonwealth, 1603. 



Manuscripts. 



Besides the Goldsmith and Harvey MSS. already mentioned, a late 

 twelfth century vellum roll with miniatures of the life of St. John 

 Baptist, probably the only surviving fragment of the Hortus Deliciarum 

 of Herrad of Landsperg, which was burnt at Strasburg in 1870 ; a 

 thirteenth century Breviary of the use of Lyons ; a thirteenth century 

 illustrated English Apocalypse, assigned to Canterbury, which belonged 

 to the Abbey of Abingdon, and was lent to Queen Joan of Scotland in 

 1362 ; a series of Charters and other documents relating to the 

 Brockman family (presented by the family) ; a series of manorial 

 documents from Conington Castle (presented by Mr. J. Norman 

 Heathcote) ; a sixteenth century Italian song-book containing 58 

 " frottole " ; two letters of John Wesley (presented by Professor A. F. 

 Pollard) ; and two volumes of Thomas Warton's correspondence 

 (presented by Lieutenant Colonel John Murray, D.S.O.). 



The Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS. was presented 

 by Mr. R. S. Greenshields with a number of MSS., including a finely- 

 written copy of the poems of the Persian poet Attar containing a 

 remarkable colophon dated 1458. H.M. the King of Siam presented 

 a comjilete set (45 vols.) of the Pali canonical scriptures of Southern 

 Buddhism. 



Prints and Drawings. 



Liotard's engraved portrait of himself, a proof before letters ; two 

 very large French woodcuts, about 1500, of the Crucifixion and the 

 Death of the Virgin, the latter unique (acquired with the help of a number 

 of subscribers and the National Art -Collections Fund) ; a woodcut of 

 the Bride of the Song of Songs ascribed to Diirer (presented by Mr. 

 Campbell Dodgson) ; a number of prints and drawings bequeathed by 

 Mr. H. van Velten ; a complete collection of the works of Sir Frank 

 Short ; a rare primitive Italian engraving of the Crucifixion. 



The Sub -Department of Oriental Prints and Drawings. 



Mr. R. N. Shaw presented another instalment of 19 fine Japanese 

 colour prints ; a fine painting of a tiger by Ganku (1749-1838), and an 

 early sixteenth century scroll-painting of a Buddhist legend, of the 

 Tosa School, were purchased. 



In the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities (in addition 

 to the Sumerian statue already mentioned), additions were made to 

 the series of Luristan bronzes ; Sir Herbert Thompson and Dr. Robert 

 Mond presented a demotic contract -papyrus from Philadelphia. 



The most important acquisition of the Department of Grreek and 

 Roman Antiquities was a small marble head of Pan of the late fifth 

 century B.C., of Attic work. 



A fine gold Persian statuette of a rider (without horse) belonging to 

 the Oxus Treasure, was added to that collection. 



The Department of Ceramics and Ethnography acquired a thirteenth- 

 fourteenth century pottery bowl of uncertain Near-Eastern origin, 

 with the design of a mounted archer ; a fine Wan-Li fish bowl and other 

 objects bequeathed by Mr. Harvey Hadden. 



