ACCOUNTS, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII. — PROGRESS made in the Cataloguing and Arrangement of the Collections, 

 and Account of Objects added, in the Year ending 25th December 1850. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. The Index to the Lists of Additions for the years 1841, 1842, 1843, 1844 and 1845 

 has been completed at the press, and forms, with the Lists themselves, a thick octavo volume. 



2. The sheets 3 D to 3 K of the Catalogue of Maps and Topographical Drawings, vol. iil., 

 pp. 385-440, have been set up in type, and 961 titles prepared or revised for press. 



3. The Additional Manuscripts 7,067-7,069, (comprising the remainder of the Stepney 

 Correspondence), have been described in detail, as have also the numbers from 15,826 to 

 15,866, from 15,889 to 15,953, and 15,971-15,974. 



4. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been described from No. 1,263 to No. 1,602, 

 inclusive, and indexed from No. 1,250 to l\'o. 1,448. 



5. The Hand List, or brief Catalogue of the Additional Manuscripts, placed in the Reading 

 Room, has been continued from June 1848 to the end of 1849. 



6. The materials for the Catalogue of Arabic manuscripts (class Poetry), are still in pro- 

 gress of revision, and the sheets from 3 T to 4 D, inclusive, have been printed off'. 



7. The detailed Catalogue of the Persian manuscripts is also in progress. From July 1849, 

 (when it was commenced), to the close of the succeeding year, 443 manuscripts have been 

 described, comprising the class of Historical works, and a portion of the Poetical. An 

 alphabetical Index of titles has been made to the Historical class. 



8. Twenty of the Syriac manuscripts have been collated and arranged for the binder, and 

 twelve others have had additional leaves inserted. 



9. An Index of names has been compiled to the Collection of detached Seals, extending 

 fi'om xvi. 4 to xxxvi. 232. 



10. The Additional Manuscripts have been arranged, numbered, and registered from No. 

 17,946 to No. 18,453, inclusive, and bound, repaired, lettered, and stamped, from No. 16,854 

 to 16,880, (the end of Major Yule's Collection), and from No. 17,502 to No. 18,097. . 



11. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been numbered from No. 7,059 to No. 7,482, 

 inclusive ; registered from No. 7,059 to No. 7,360 ; and stamped from No. 6,710 to the same 

 number. 



12. The Egerton Manuscripts have been arranged, numbered, and registered from No. 

 1,177 to No. 1,506, inclusive, and bound, lettered, and stamped from No. 1,140 to No. 1,189. 



13. Three hundred and forty-nine of the Old Royal Collection of Manuscripts, and 69^ 

 of the Additional Manuscripts, have been foliod. 



14. Every tract, letter, or separate document has been stamped in 1,724 volumes of the 

 Harleian Collection, 80 of the Sloane, 5 of the Old Royal, 1 of the Cottonian, 40 of the 

 Egerton, and 704 of the Additional Manuscripts. The number of stamps affixed to these 

 volumes amounts to 116,311. The Charters and Rolls stamped are from the following- 

 Collections, namely, Cottonian and Various, 30 ; Harleian, 262 ; Campbell, 30 ; Wolley, 3 ; 

 and Additional, 664 ; together with 35 Pipe-Rolls, and 663 original Church Briefs. The 

 total number of stamps affixed to these documents is 3,969. Sixty-five printed books 

 belonging to the Department have also been bound or lettered and stamped. 



15. Eleven of the valuable Cottonian Manuscripts on vellum (including the Chronicle of 

 Roger de Wendover, supposed to have been utterly destroyed), and two Old Royal, as well 

 as five Cottonian on paper, all injured in the fire of ITM, have been carefully flattened, 

 repaired, inlaid and re-bound. 



Forty-nine Sloane, 70 Harleian, 11 Cottonian, 18 Old Royal, 22 Lansdowne, 3 Arundel 

 and Burney, 24 Egerton, and 785 Additional Manuscripts have been bound, repaired or 

 lettered, and, when in the form of Rolls, placed in boxes. 



16. The Additional Charters have been cleaned, repaired and marked from No. 6,710 to 

 No. 7,360, together with 13 others selected from the same series ; 30 of the Cottonian and 

 Various ; 30 Campbell ; 262 Harleian, and 3 Wolley. For all those which have seals, boxea 

 have been made. The Pipe-Rolls have been cleaned and repaired from 13 Ed w. I. to 13 

 Edw. II. (35 Rolls), and the entire Collection of original Church Briefs, from 28 Geo. II. 

 to 8 Geo. IV., cleaned, marked and placed in boxes. 



17. The Middle Room of the Department having been glazed, a re-arrangement has been* 

 made of the manuscripts placed here and in the gallery of the Saloon, and 2,227 volumes 

 have been permanently press-marked, and references made in the Hand Catalogues. 



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