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IG. The Egerton Manuscripts have been arranoed, numbered, prepared for the binder, 

 and registered, from No. 1,656 to No. 1,663; bound and lettered, from No. 1,337 to No. 1,498, 

 and from No. 1,647 to No. 1,655 ; and stamped, from No. 1,337 to No 1,4-22. 



17. Four hundred and eighty-six of the Additional Manuscripts have been folio'd, as 

 also 3 Cottonian, 16 Harleian, 2 Old Royal, and 3 Egerton Manuscripts. 



18. Stamps have been placed upon every tract, letter, or separate document, in 16 voiumes 

 of the Cottonian Collection, 1,101 of the Sloane, 2 of the Harleian, 94 of the Eserton, and 

 717 of the Additional Manuscripts, with 95 Books of Reference. The Charters and Rolls 

 stamped are 81 Cottonian, 569 Harleian, and 822 Additional. The total number of stamps 

 affixed amounts to 44,155. 



19. Considerable portions of the Cottonian Manuscripts on vellum, marked Tiberius A. 

 XII. and XV., Galba A. XIV., XV. and XX., Otho B. IV. and D. I., and Vitellius 

 A. v., D. XV., E. I., 11., III., VIIL, XII., and F. I. (injured in the fire of 1731), have been 

 identified and inlaid. The whole number of loose vellum leaves and fragments inlaid 

 during the year amounts to 2,629. Two Old Royal Manuscripts (damaged in the same 

 fire) have also been flattened, inlaid, and rebound. 



20. Twenty-three Cottonian, 16 Sloane, 90 Harleian, 28 Old Royal, 1 Lansdowne, 

 140 Egerton, and 814 Additional Manuscripts, with 90 Books of Reference, have been 

 bound, repaired, or lettered. Upwards of 1,600 volumes of various collections have been 

 press-marked, or have had the press-marks altered. 



21. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been cleaned, repaired, and marked, from 

 No. 8,666 to No. 9,561, inclu.sive ; together with 194 Cottonian, and 1,549 Harleian 

 Charters ; and boxes have been made for them. 



22. During the progress of the workmen in glazing the presses of the Gallery in the 

 Middle Room of the Department, about 4,500 Oriental Manuscripts have been moved, and 

 are now restored to their places. The whole of the various collections have been twice 

 dusted and cleaned, and portions of them three and iour times. 



23. The Additions made to the Department in the course of the year are as follows : — 



To the General Collection — 



Manuscripts -------- 523 



Original Charters and Rolls ----- 2,460 



Seals and Impressions ------ 8 



To the Egerton Collection — 



Manuscripts -------- 8 



Among the Acquisitions more worthy of notice may be mentioned : — 



The Diplomatic Correspondence and Papers of Sebastiao Joze Carvalho e Mello 

 (Portuguese Ambassador at London and Vienna, and subsequently known as the Marquis 

 de Pombal), from 1738 to 1747 ; with above sixty volumes relating to the history of the 

 Portuguese possessions in India and Brazil, during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries; and 

 an equal number of volumes concerning the history and commerce of Portugal, England, 

 France, and Spain, during the same period, and earlier: all acquired at the sale of the 

 library of the late Lord Stuart de Rothesay, 



Six voiumes of the Collections of T. F. Dukes, for the Parochial and Ecclesiastical History 

 of Shropshire; and eleven volumes of Drawings of Churches and Antiquities, with Copies 

 of Monumental Inscriptions, Sac, by D. Parkes, relating to the same county. Many 

 volumes of Original Rentals, Extents, Assessments, Court-Books, &c., of lands in the 

 county of Suffolk, from the 15th to the 18th century; with about 1,130 Original Suffolk 

 Charters, from the 13th to the 17th century. 



An extremely fine copy, in two volumes folio, of the Shah Jehan Nama, containing the 

 history of part of the reign of the Mogul Emperor, Shah Jehan, composed by Adul Hamid. 

 Lahori, who died in 1654; with many very beautiful miniatures. This copy was in the 

 library of the King of Delhi, in 1815. 



A very early and well-written copy of the Shah Nama of Firdausi, written A. H. 675 = 

 A. D. 1276. 



A Poem written in Oordoo (Hindustani)^ by His Majesty the King of Oude, entitled, 

 " A Tale of Love," and lithographed at the royal press of Lucknow ; presented by H. M. the 

 King of Oude. 



A fine Copy, on vellum, of the beginnine of the 14th century, of the Fuero or Code of 

 Laws, compiled by order of Alphonso el Sabio, King of Castile, in the years 1256-1265 ; 

 with small but valuable miniatures, executed in Spain. 



A beautiful volume, containing the Spanish translation of the Ethics of Aristotle, made 

 by Don Carlos, Prince of Viana, m 1457, for his uncle, Alphonso V., King of Aragon and 

 Sicily ; and, apparently, the copy intended for presentation. It is written on the finest 

 vellum, with illuminated borders, initial letters, and shields of arms. 



A remarkably fine copy of the " Grandes Chroniques de Saint Denis," ending with the 

 accession of Charles VI. in 1380, and written not many years afterwards ; on vellum, large 

 folio. 



A volume containing the Hours of the Virgin, and other Offices, adorned with exquisite 

 miniatures, executed by the celebrated Giulio Clovio, about the year 1535, for his patron 



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