ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The volumes of inventories, catalogues and works of reference bound or lettered amount 

 to 243 in number. 



13. The Harleian Rolls have been carefully cleaned, repaired, re-marked and stamped, 

 from A 21-43 to V 1-34, and E E 1-21. 



14. During the last twelvemonth 150 Harleian, 750 Egerton, and 1,750 Additional MSS. 

 have been folioed. 



15. The additions made to the Department since the last Report are — 

 To the General Collection, — 



Manuscripts ----___ 575 



Original Charters and Rolls ----- 372 

 Seals and Impressions ------ 4 



To the Egerton Collection — 



Manuscripts - - - - - - -17 



Among the accessions more worthy of notice may be mentioned — 



A volume of Hours, executed by a Flemish artist, for Philip the Fair of Castile, previous 

 to his accession to the throne of Spain (between 1490 and 1506), or for his wife Joanna, 

 mother of the Emperor Charles V. Full-length portraits of both Sovereigns appear at the 

 beginning of the volume. It is very beautifully written and illuminated, and the miniatures 

 have been ascribed to the celebrated Hemmelinck. 



An original volume of the Statutes and Privileges of the University of Paris, of the fourteenth 

 century, on vellum. 



The Apocalypse of St. John in Latin and French, illustrated with miniatures of a large 

 size, and of very remarkable execution, on vellum, of the beginning of the fourteenth century. 



The Latin Gospel-Lessons for the service of the year, according to the use of the Church 

 of Paris, with a profusion of miniatures, in the highest style of French art, at the end of the 

 thirteenth century, on vellum. 



The New Testament in Greek, including the Apocalypse (of such rare occurrence) of the 

 thirteenth century, on vellum. 



A copy of the Scala Paradisi of Johannes Climacus, written on vellum, in a beautiful large 

 minuscule character of the tenth century. 



A large and valuable collection of Papers relating to the History, Geography and Statistics 

 of South America and the Philippine Islands, formerly belonging to Captain Felipe Bauza, 

 director of the Geographical Cabinet of Madrid, together with 266 drawn Maps illustrative 

 of the same. 



A Collection of 357 original Charters relating to England and Normandy, from the thirteenth 

 to the eighteenth -century, acquired from a collector in France. 



The first portion (extending from 1576 to 1580) of a series of transcripts from the 

 Archives of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, of documents relating to England, deposited 

 in the Museum by direction of Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State. 



The number of deliveries of Manuscripts during the last twelvemonth to readers in the 

 Reading Room, amounts to 17,992, and to artists and others in the rooms of the Department 

 to 2,442, exclusive of the numerous volumes examined by visitors. 



Department of Pbinted Books. 



1. Arrangement of the Library. — The number of works and volumes marked amounts to 

 14,399, besides 488 removals ; that of titles to 15,850, besides 1,226 alterations of press- 

 marks, caused by the removals. The re-marking of bound volumes has amounted to 4,457, 

 and the total number of labels affixed to books to 17,597. The entries of continuations of 

 works in progress have been 4,424. These items form a total of 58,441. 



IT. Cataloguing: — a.) "New General Catalogue. — 1. The number of titles written for this 



Catalogue amounts to 47,123. 



2. In each of the interleaved copies of the first volume of the new Catalogue, 1,949 titles 

 have been entered, and 617, after having had to be erased, re-entered. 



3. The number of entries made in the hand Catalogue is 1,760. 



b.) Old Catalogue. — The number of new titles prepared for this Catalogue is 32,864, 

 besides 2,313 of Chinese and other Oriental works; altogether 35,177. The number of 

 entries made in each of two copies of this Catalogue is 7,026, besides 6,102 re-transcribed, 

 and 2,029 erased and re-transcribed; altogether 30,314. 



c.) Maps. 



