ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF BRITISH MUSEUM. 11 



inclusive ; registered from No. 7,905 to No. 8,246 ; and stamped from No. 7,905 to 

 No, 8,-329. 



14. The Egerton Manuscripts have been numbered and registered, from No. 1,534 to 

 No. 1,570 inclusive; and bound and stamped from No. 1,217 to No. 1,240. 



15. Hand or Shelf Catalogues have been made to the Harleian Charters and Rolls, the 

 Pipe Rolls, the Select Seals and Charters, and to the Manuscripts of George the Third. 



16. Three hundred and forty-three of the Additional Manuscripts have been folio'd, as 

 have the Egerton Manuscripts, Nos. 1,404-1,557. 



17. Every tract, letter or separate document has been stamped in 29 volumes of the 

 Sloane Collection, 3 of the Cottonian, 114 of the Harleian, 1,537 of the Old Royal, 3 of 

 the Arundel, 73 of the Egerton, and 485 of the Additional Manuscripts. The Charters and 

 Rolls stamped are as follows: viz. Harleian 643, Cottonian 13, Old Royal 10, and Addi- 

 tional 380; together with 87 Pipe Rolls, 13 labelled Seals, and 81 Books of reference 

 belonging to the Department. The total amount of Stamps aftixed amounts to 75,721. 



18. Five of the Cottonian Manuscripts on vellum, and five on paper (all injured in the 

 fire of 1731), have been carefully flattened, inlaid and bound. In addition to these, the 

 Manuscripts marked Otho D. I., Otho D. X., Galba A. XX., and portions of 15 others, on 

 vellum (including the Sloane MS. 1,104) have been identified, flattened and partly inlaid; 

 and above 600 loose leaves have been flattened, the references to which are not yet ascer- 

 tained. The whole of the refuse Cottonian Papers, left unarranged after the fire, have been 

 examined, and above 60 documents added to the Collection of Rolls and Charters. 



19. The leaves of the Cottonian Manuscripts, Julius C. V., Galba A. XX., and Faustina 

 A. IX.; the Harleian, 3,777-3,782 ; Lansdowne, 1,038; and Additional, 6,394, 6,395, 

 16,560, have been re-ananged and re-bound. 



20. Twelve Sloane, 14 Cottonian, 74 Harleian, 27 Old Royal, 5 Lansdowne, 93 Egerton, 

 and 454 Additional Manuscripts, with 166 Books belonging to the Department, have been 

 bound, repaired or lettered. Shelf numbers have been affixed on 8,800 of the Additional 

 MSS., on 800 Select MSS., and on 1,900 Seals; and 1,906 Additional MSS. have been 

 press-marked, out of which number 237 have been furbished. 



21. The Additional Charters have been cleaned, repaired and marked, from No. 7,905 

 to No. 8,329, together with 48 others with fine Seals, selected from the old series ; 689 

 Harleian Charters with Seals, 62 Cottonian Rolls, and 10 old Royal. Boxes have been made 

 for those with Seals, as well as for 103 detached Seals. The Pipe-Rolls have also been 

 cleaned and repaired, from 20 Hen. VI. to 5 Jac. I. (81 Rolls); and the Coptic and 

 Greek Papyri, LVIl-LXXIV., have been laid down or placed in boxes. 



22. The Additions made to the Department in the course of the twelvemonth are as 

 follows : — 



To the General Collection — 



Manuscripts __-_.__ 453 



Original Charters and Rolls - - _ _ 350 



Seals and Impressions ------ 45 



To the Egerton Collection — 



Manuscripts - - - - - - -35 



Among the acquisitions more worthy of notice may be mentioned,— 



The celebrated Book of Hours, known by the name of the " Bedford Missal," written 

 and sumptuously illuminated in France for the Regent, John Duke of Bedford, and his 

 Duchess, Anne of Burgundy, between the years 1423 and 1430, containing full-length por- 

 traits of the Duke and Duchess. In 1430 it was presented to King Henry the Sixth, and 

 more than a century later came into the possession of Henry II. of France. In the last cen- 

 tury it was purchased by Harley, Earl of Oxford, and, after passing since through various 

 hands, is at length re-united to the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts. 



The Breviary presented to Isabella of Castile by Francisco de Rojas, who was employed 

 as Ambassador to negotiate the double marriage of her children, Don Juan and Doiia Juana, 

 with Margaret and Philip of Austria, in 1496-7, on which occasion the volume was probably 

 given. It is profusely adorned with miniatures and illuminated ornaments, many of which 

 are specimens of the finest style of Flemish and Spanish art of that period. 



The Book of Hours of Juana, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, and wife of Philip the 

 Fair, which has hitherto been erroneously assigned to Mary of Burgundy. It contains her 

 portrait and many beautiful miniatures, and was probably executed by Flemish artists soon 

 after her marriage in 1496. 



A volume of Hours written for Francis the First, but left unfinished, and the miniatures 

 chiefly supplied by a hand of the 18th century. From the La Valli^re Collection. 



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