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



The Book of Hours executed for Francois d'Interville, Bishop of Auxerre, in the year 1525 ; 

 a fine specimen of French art at that date. 



Another Book of Hours, of unusually large size, written and illuminated in France about 

 1520. At the end are inserted four exquisite Miniatures taken from another manuscript. 



A very fine copy of the Bible Historiale of Petrus Comestor, in the French version of 

 Guiart des Molins, written and illuminated about the year 1400 ; in two large folio volumes. 



A copy of the Latin Psalter, written in the Lombardic character, with singular illuminated 

 initial letters of the 12th century ; unfortunately imperfect. Presented hy the Executors of 

 the Rev. Henry Crowe. 



The original Assignment of " Paradise Lost," under the hand and seal of Milton, to Samuel 

 Symons, printer, dated 27 April 1667; also the Deed of Assignment on parchment, from 

 Dryden to Tonson, of his translation of Virgil, 15 June 1694; and the Assignment from 

 Goldsmith to Dodsley, of his " History of Eminent Persons of Great Britain," 31 March 

 1763. Presented by Samuel Rogers, Esq. 



A large and valuable collection of original Letters and Papers, selected from the Rupert 

 and Fairfax Correspondence recently dispersed by auction, chiefly relating to the events 

 during the Civil War between 1640 and 1649, with some others of earlier and later date, 

 and including numerous Letters of Charles L, Charles II., Sir Edward Nicolas, Lord 

 Digby, Lord Goring, Sir Thomas Fairfax, Sir Edward Hyde (Lord Clarendon), and of nearly 

 every other eminent person, both on the side of the Royalists and on that of the Par- 

 liament. 



The original Marriage-Contract of Charles I. when Prince of Wales, signed and sealed at 

 Madrid, 4 August 1623 ; the Autograph Letters written by Charles I. from York, in May 

 1642, to Lord Keeper Littleton, to demand the Great Seal; four Letters of Mary of Modena, 

 Queen* of James II., 12 Letters of Henry IV. of France, 13 of the historian De Thou, 

 the Autograph Report of Sir Christopher Wren, relative to the designs for the summit of the 

 Monument, and many others, English and Foreign, of considerable rarity and interest. 



Seventeen Samaritan Manuscripts, one of which is on Vellum, containing the Pentateuch, 

 with an Arabic version. 



The extensive Collections for the History of the County of Suffolk, made by the late 

 D. E. Davy, Esq., of Uffbrd, which will form, when bound, a series of nearly 160 volumes. 



23. The number of deliveries of Manuscripts to Readers in the Reading Rooms during 

 the twelvemonth, amounts to 19,877, and to Artists and others, in the rooms of the 

 Department, to 3,045, exclusive of 478 Charters, and the numerous volumes examined by 

 Visitors. 



Department of Antiquities. 



During the past year, a new Saloon has been completed, in which it is intended to expand 

 the collection of Greek Sculptures. 



The Southern Side Gallery has been completed, and the Roof altered, to adapt the light 

 for the Assyrian Bas-reliefs. 



The Sculptures from Nimroud and Khorsabad have been arranged in this Side Gallery 

 and in the two adjoining Saloons. The Sculptures from Koyunjik, intended to be placed in 

 the Northern Side Gallery, are undergoing the repairs rendered necessary by the calcined 

 state in which they were discovered by Mr. Layard. 



The collection of Egyptian Sculptures are in the course of being expanded into the 

 Centre and South Principal Gallery, in which and in the North Principal Gallery they will 

 be arranged in chronological order. 



The Etruscan, Mexican and Oriental Antiquities have been removed from the South 

 Principal Gallery to a temporary depository in the Basement, in which have been also 

 placed some of the Roman Sarcophagi and Inscriptions, to await the preparation of proper 

 apartments. 



The Anglo-Roman Antiquities have been arranged on one side of the First Saloon. The 

 opposite side of this Saloon, together with the Second Saloon, and part of the Phigaleian 

 Saloon, are, for the present, occupied with the later Greek and Roman Sculptures, which it 

 is impossible to arrange systematically until the completion of the new Gallery now in 

 progress adjoining the Lycian Room. 



The Antique Bronzes have been partially re-arranged in a new Room on the Upper Floor, 

 and the miscellaneous collection of smaller Assyrian Antiquities procured by Mr. Layard is 

 in course of arrangement in the Room next to the Egyptian. 



The Roman Brass Coins have been transferred to new and more commodious Cabinets. 

 The classification of the Foreign Medieval and Modern Coins has been improved, and the 



incorporation 



