BRITISH MUSEUM 







The figures for the several Departments were as follows :— 



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Printed Books : 



1934 



1935 



Books and Pamphlets 



37,843 



36,096 



Serials and Parts of Volumes 



77,925 



82.478 



Maps and Atlases 



1,347 



1,070 



Music 



8,934 



9,768 



Newspapers (single numbers) 



243,038 



264,501 



Miscellaneous 



3,656 



3,495 



Manuscripts 



218 



1,070 



Oriental Printed Books and M.S.S. ... 



2,350 



2,869 



Prints and Drawings 



1,712 



1,911 



Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities . . . 



1,104 



1,087 



Greek and Roman Antiquities 



73 



85 



British and Medieval Antiquities 



528 



2,285 



Oriental Antiquities and Ethnography 



1,347 



573 



„ ,, Series of objects 



53 



44 



Coins and Medals 



1,441 



6,006 



381,569 



413,338 



Full descriptions of the more important objects acquired during the 

 year may be found as usual in the British Museum Quarterly. The 

 National Art-Collections Fund, the Friends of the National Libraries, 

 the Contemporary Art Society, and the Christy Trustees have again 

 added to the collections of the Museum. 



Department of Printed Books. 



The chief acquisitions were : — 



Among Incunabula : Werner Rolewinck, Fasciculus temporum, 

 Conrad Winters, Cologne, 1476 ; Leonardus Aretinus [or rather, 

 Buonaccorso de Montemagno], De nobilitate controversia [J. A. de 

 Honate, Milan, c. 1478] ; Manilius, Astronomicon cum commento 

 Laurentii Bonincontrii, Rome, 1484. 



In addition to the above, acquired by purchase, a collection of 54 books, 

 29 of the 15th and 25 of the 16th century, have been presented by Sir 

 Charles Sherrington, O.M. ; the most noteworthy are : Joannes de 

 Aragonia, Orationes duse, Joannes Philippus de Lignamine, Rome, 1471 ; 

 Ambrosius, De officiis [Rome, c. 1473] ; Arnaldus de ViUanova, De arte 

 cognoscendi venena, Christoph Valdarfer, Milan, 1475 ; Troilus Malvetius, 

 De sorte [Bologna, c. 1480]. 



Other gifts of incunabula have included : — 



Luigi Pulci, II Driadeo, Francesco di Dino, Florence, 1489 ; Regula 

 beatissimi Benedicti, Montserrat, 1499; both presented by Mr. Arthur 

 Gimson : and Petrarch, Canzoniere, Bartholomaeus de Zanis, Venice, 

 1500 ; and Aeneas Sylvius [Pope Pius II], De curialium miseria [Eucharius 

 Silber, Rome, c. 1500] ; both presented by Sir George Hill, K.C.B. 



Mr. Arthur Gimson has also presented a number of EngUsh books of 

 the 16th century, mostly legal, of which the most noteworthy are : — 

 Statutes of King Henry VII, Richard Pjmson, London, [c. 1505]; an 

 Indulgence for the benefit of contributors to the funds of the Order of 

 Our Lady of Mount Carmel, issued by William Brevie and John Byrd 



