ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



11. A classed Numerical Inventory of the whole of the Oriental Manuscripts in the 

 various collections, has been made. 



12. One hundred and seventy-three of the Syriac Manuscripts have been collated and 

 arranged for the binder, and eighteen Sanscrit Manuscripts described. 



13. The Additional Manuscripts have been arranged, entered and numbered, from 

 No. 17,666 to No. 17,946 inclusive, and bound and stamped from No. 16,597 to No. 16,636, 

 16,667 to 16,853 (Yule), 16,882 to 17,101, and 17,275 to 17,501. 



14. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been numbered and marked from No. 6,7 JO 

 to No. 7,058 inclusive, and stamped to No. 7,040. 



15. The Egerton Manuscripts have been arranged, entered and numbered from No. 1,166 

 to No. 1,176, and bound and stamped from No. 1,139 to No. 1,168. 



16. Twelve of the valuable Cottonian volumes on vellum and one on paper, injured in the 

 fire of 1731, have been carefully flattened, repaired, inlaid and re-bound; and 95 Cotton 

 Charters damaged at the same period have been mended, and laid down on boards. 



Three hundred and eight Sloane, one hundred and fifty-one Harleian, nine Cottonian, five 

 Old Royal, one Lansdowne, thirty-six Egerton, and nine hundred and sixty-nine Additional 

 Manuscripts have been bound, repaired or lettered, and, in the form of Rolls or Reeds, placed 

 in boxes. 



The volumes of Catalogues, Inventories and Books of reference, bound or lettered, 

 amount to 166 in number. 



17. The following collections of Charters and Rolls have been cleaned, repaired, re- 

 marked, and (where required) stamped, namely, Cottonian, from I. 1 to XV. 26; Harleian, 

 W 1 to D D 2, and 43 A 1-81 ; Sloane, xxxi. 1 ; Royal, 14 B i.-xli. ; Lansdowne, 1 to 

 694; Topham, 1 to 56 ; Egerton, 1 to 102 ; Campbell, i. 1. to xvii. 1., and xx. 1. to xxi. 8., 

 with 254 of the Additional Rolls selected from the general series of numbers, and the Pipe 

 Rolls from 9 Hen. H. to 12 Edw. I. (73 Rolls). 



18. Daring the last twelvemonth the foHos of 363 Old Royal, 164 Egerton, and 1,216 

 Additional Manuscripts have been numbered, and those of 101 volumes of State Papers in 

 the Cottonian Collection, under the press marks Caligula A to E, Galba B to E, and 

 Titus B, have been numbered again. 



19. New Inventories or Hand Catalogues have been made to the Harleian Manuscripts, 

 and to the various collections of Charters, Rolls and Seals. 



20. Every tract, letter or separate document has been stamped in 1,968 volumes of the 

 Harleian Collection, 656 of the Additional Manuscripts, and 31 of the Egerton Collection. 

 The number of stamps affixed to Manuscripts amounts to 85,923, and to Charters and Rolls 

 to 6,286. 



21. The additions made to the Department during the twelvemonth are as follows ; — 



To the General Collection, — 



Manuscripts - - - - - - - 268 



Orioinal Charters and Rolls ----- 349 



To the Egerton Collection — 



Manuscripts - - - - - - -12 



Among the volumes more worthy of notice may be mentioned — 



A copy of the Vulgate Latin Bible in two large folio volumes, finely written and illumi- 

 nated, and executed about the year 1170 at the Premonstratensian Abbey of Floreffe, in the 

 diocese of Liege. Prefixed is a series of chronological tables, with numerous valuable 

 historical notes on the margins, relative to events in Europe between the years 1100 and 

 1160. These volumes were formerly in the hbrary of M. Vergauwen of Ghent. 



The Gospels in Latin, written in France in the eleventh century, with tables of canons and 

 miniatures rudely executed, but very remarkable for the illustration of the state of art at that 

 period. 



The Commentaries of Caesar, written on vellum in the twelfth century. 



A volume of Hours of the thirteenth century, executed in France, with many miniatures 

 and ornaments. 



A copy of Rabbi Kimchi's scarce work, entitled Liher Radicum, in Hebrew, written on 

 vellum in the year 1384. 



Two copies of the later Wycliffite version of the New Testament, on vellum, of the 

 fifteenth century. 



A magnificent copy of the Priorista of Florence, containing the arms finely emblazoned, 

 and names of those families who had obtained the dignity of the Priorato, of the sixteenth 

 century, in large folio. 



The second and third portions (extending from 1584 to 1587) of a series of transcripts 

 from the Archives at the Hague, of documents relative to Engl?ind, deposited ip the Museum 

 by order of Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State, 

 * Ninety. 



