ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Twenty-eight original Anglo-Saxon Charters have been repaired, and laid down on boards, 

 and the Harleian Rolls, A. 1-20, C. 1-10, have been carefully restored. 



Eighty- seven Sloane, one hundred and forty-four Harleian, five Cottonian, fifteen Old 

 Royal, seventy-two Egerton, and five hundred and forty Additional Manuscripts, have been 

 bound, repaired and lettered. 



13. The wholeof the Inventories of the several Collections of Manuscripts have been 

 verified, and a new Inventory made of the Harleian Collection, verified numerically. 



14. About one-half of the Collections of Original Charters and Rolls (amounting alto- 

 gether to above 24,000) has been cleaned; and the older portion of the Collection is in pro- 

 gress of being repaired, re-marked and stamped. 



15. Above 2,200 of the Additional Manuscripts have been foliod during the last twelve- 

 month ; and since the year 1842 the Harleian Collection has been foliod from No. 1 to 

 No. 6,965. 



16. The Additions made to the Department since the last Report are as follows: 



To the General Collection, — 



Manuscripts (exclusive of the Syriac lately received) - 697 



Original Charters ___---- 4. 



Seals and Bullae, with impressions - - - - 53 



To the Egerton Collection, — 



Manuscripts _-_____-5 



Among the accessions more worthy of notice may be specified — 



The volume of exquisite Miniature Drawings by Giulio Clovio, executed by command of 

 Philip II. of Spain, and representing the victories of the Emperor Charles V, This volume 

 was formerly in the Escurial, and was bequeathed, with the library of the Right Honourable 

 Thomas Grenville, to the British Museum. 



A valuable Collection of Oriental Manuscripts (241 in number), chiefly in Persian and 

 Hindustani, presented by the three sons of the late Major Wilham Yule, of the Honourable 

 Company's Service in Bengal. 



Four volumes of Ethnographical and Topographical Drawings (252 in number) made by 

 Mr. Edward Goodall, the artist who accompanied Sir Robert Schomburgk in his expedition 

 to British Guiana in 1835-1839; presented by the Right Honourable Earl Grey, Colonial 

 Secretary. 



A large and important accession of ancient Syriac Manuscripts on vellum and paper, 

 obtained from the Monastery of Saint Mary Deipara, in the desert of Scete, which will 

 form, when bound, about 140 or 150 volumes; besides supplying deficiencies in more than 

 100 volumes of the same collection already in the Museum. Among them are many frag- 

 ments of pallmpsext Manuscripts, the most remarkable of which is a small quarto (originally 

 a folio) volume, containing, by the first hands, nearly the whole of the Gospel of Luke, 

 in Greek, and above 4,000 fines of the Iliad of Homer, comprising parts of the 11th — 14th, 

 20th — 24th books, written in a fine square uncial letter, apparently not later than the 

 sixth century. 



Three finely illuminated Books of Hours ; one executed in France, in the early part of 

 the fifteenth century ; another in Gei'many, half a century later ; and the third, written at 

 Ghent, with very beautiful miniatures in the style of the Van Eyck School, about the middle 

 of the fifteenth century. 



A volume of Persian Poems by different authors, which, for delicacy and beauty of writing 

 and ornament, is superior to any previously in the Museum. 



A small but valuable Collection of Liturgical MSS. on vellum, previously in the pos- 

 session of the Rev. W. Maskell, containing the ancient Ecclesiastical Services in Italy, 

 France and England, from the eleventh to the sixteenth century ; among which is a very 

 interesting Book of Hours, according to the use of Salisbury, of the fifteenth century, 

 containing the autographs of Henry VII., Elizabeth of York, Henry VIII., Catherine of 

 Arragon, and the Princess Mary. 



Several valuable Liturgical and Theological Manuscripts on vellum, of the tenth, eleventh 

 and twelfth centuries, formerly belonging to the Monastery of Stavelot, near Liege, and 

 purchased at a sale at Ghent. 



A selection from the Rezzi Collection of MSS. formerly at Rome, including a copy of the 

 Anthologia GrcBca, of the fourteenth century ; a Breviary, in Armenian; and seven volumes 

 in the Catalan dialect. 



A fine copy oi i\\e Roman dAtlienes, by Alexandre de Bernay, wi'ittenin 1330, on vellum. 

 Many classical Manuscripts on vellum of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, comprising 

 Caesar, Horace, Sallust, Cicero, Aulus Gellius, Pliny Junior, and others; as also a copy of 

 the Latin Chronicle of Eusebius, Jerome and Prosper, of the ninth century, and a valuable 

 Latin Psalter of the thirteenth century, with many spirited outline drawings by a French 

 jirtist. 



A selection 



