ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



13. The Additions made to the Department since the last Return are as follows : 

 To the General Collection, — 



Mamisciipts -----.___ 313 



Original Charters and Rolls --____ 120 

 To the Egerton Collection, — 



Manuscripts _-----___ gg 



Among the Manuscripts more deserving of notice may be specified, — The Anglo-Saxon 

 Cartulary of Saint Swithin's, Winchester, written in the 12th century, and containing 

 upwards of 200 Documents, anterior to the period of the Norman Conquest: — The extensive 

 series of Transcripts relating to Great Britain, made from the Papal Registers, extending 

 from Honorius III. (1216) to Clement XIII. (1759), forming with the Indexes fifty volumes 

 in folio, obtained in 1825 by W. R. Hamilton, Esq., British Minister at Naples, and now 

 transferred from the State Paper Office by order of the Right Honourable Sir James R. G, 

 Graham, as the Secretary of State for the Home Department : — A fine Manuscript of Guido 

 di Colonna's "Liber de Ruina TroJEe," of the 14th century, on vellum, with curious illumi- 

 nations, presented by Edward V. Utterson, Esq. : — A large portion of the earlier version of 

 the Wycliffite Bible, from Proverbs to the Apocalypse, on vellum, of the 14th century: — 

 A fine Cartulary of the Abbey of Malmesbury, written on vellum in the early parts of the 

 reign of Edward I. : — And a very beautiful Latin Psalter, with illuminations by a Greek 

 Artist, apparently executed for tlie Queen of Fulco I., King of Jerusalem, towards the 

 middle of the 12th century, and bound in the original exquisitely-carved ivory covers, of 

 the same date as the Manuscript. 



Department of Printed Books. 



The duties performed and the work done in the Department of Printed Books are as 

 follow : — 



1. Arrangement of the Library.— \. The number of works and volumes recently added 

 to the Library, which have been placed and marked, is 20,099, besides 2,034 articles removed 

 and re-marked. The press marks to these volumes and articles, together with those put to 

 the corresponding titles and cross references, amount to 46,788. 



2. The number of presses dusted and cleaned is 485. 



3. The stamping of each volume and article in the Royal Library has been continued ; 

 the number of presses so stamped is 182, containing 44,391 articles. 



4. The press marks are in the course of being placed on the back of each article or volume 

 in the Library: 245,483 articles are already so marked. 



II. Cataloguing: — a.) New General Catalogue. — 1. The number of titles prepared for this 

 Catalogue amounts to 42,214. 



2. In each of the three interleaved copies of the first volume of the new Catalogue, 710 

 titles have been entered, besides 127 re-transcribed. 



3. The number of press marks entered as above is 618, and of those re-transcribed 163. 



4. The number of entries in the hand Catalogue is 643. 



The Keeper of the Printed Books has represented to the Trustees that no part of a work of 

 the nature of the Catalogue, al-phaheticalhj arrarigtd, ought to be printed till the whole of the 

 manuscript from tlie first to the last article is ready for the press ; that is to say, not only 

 each article written out, but also carefully arranged in the strict order and precise form in 

 which it is to be printed. He states that this is required io insure correctness as w?ll as com- 

 pleteness ; that the books catalogued under the last letters of the alphabet require cross refer- 

 ences from among the entries in the early letters, which cross references cannot be inserted 

 if such early letters be already printed; and that on revising the old titles, entries perpetually 

 occur in the latter letters of the old Catalogue, which entries have to be inserted among 

 the earlier parts of the alphabet, from which they would be omitted if these parts were pre- 

 viously printed. Upon these representations the Trustees have consented for the present to 

 suspend the printing of the Catalogue. 



b.) Old Catalogue. — The number of new titles written for this Catalogue is 21,371, 

 including 1,231 titles for Chinese books. The number of entries made in each of two copies 

 of it is 10,494, besides 5,065 titles re-transcribed, and 2,115 erased and re-entered. 



c.) Maps. — The titles of the Maps revised and got ready for marking and transcribing 

 are 8,704, besides 3,486 newly written. 



d.) Music. — For this CoUectfon 22,618 titles have been revised and got ready for marking 

 and transcribing, besides 647 new titles being written. 



III. Additions.—!. The number of volumes added to the Library amounts to 12,163; of 

 which 298 have been presented, 9,113 purchased, and 2,752 obtained by copyright. 



2. The 



