ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 1 1 



to 3,784, and Additional 19,682 copied fair into the respective volumes. The Indexes to 

 the Autoiiraph Letters in the Harleian Collection, as far as made, have been alphabetically 

 arranged, with cross references. 



9. The Register of Donations to the Department has been kept up to the end of 1858. 



10 Transcripts of the Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, with an Index, and of the Catalogue 

 of Casts of Seals presented by the late Mr. J. Doubleday, have been made for the use of 

 the Heading Room. 



11. Thf arrangement of the Gualterio and Haldimand Papers for the binder has been 

 continued, and the Johnson and Strafford Papers, and Bentinck Papers, have been similarly 

 prepared. 



12. The Additional Manuscripts have been arranged, numbered, and registered, from 

 No. 22,101 to No. 22,641, (including the additions to the end of 1858); and bound, repaired, 

 lettered and stamped, from No. 20,386 to No. 20,402 (Gualterio Papers), No. 21,'6;U to 

 No. 21,754 (Bouquet and Haldimand Papers), and from No. 22,101 to No. 22,190, and 

 No. 22,268 to No. 22,438, inclusive. 



13. Tie Egerton Manuscripts have been arranged, numbered, registered, bound, 

 lettered, and stamped from No. 1,704 to No. 1,788. 



14. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been arranged and numbered from 

 No. '3,907 to No. 13,983 inclusive; and registered from No. 9,284 to No. 10,119. 



15. The whole of the detached Seals have been arranged, with numbers and labels, and 

 a Hand List made of them. A separate Hand List has been made of the select Seals, 

 which have also been arranged and labelled. 



16. Six hundred and eighty of the Additional Manuscripts, 376 of the Sloaiie, and 18 

 of the Egerton Collection, have been folio'd. Three hundred and eighty-eight Sloane 

 Manuscripts have been collated, and upwards of 1,600 entries made in the Hand and Shelf 

 Lists of various Collections. 



17. Stamps have been placed upon every tract, letter, or separate document, in 16 volumes 

 of the Sloane Collection, one Cottonian, one Old Royal, 32 Egerton, and 1,569 of the 

 Additional Manuscripts, with 52 iSooks of Reference. The Charters and Rolls stamped 

 are, 1,052 Additional, and 28 Egerton. The total number of stamps affixed amounts to 

 47,600. 



18. The Egerton and Hargrave Collections of Manuscripts have been moved and re- 

 arranged, and the greater portion of the former Collection has had press marks and shelf 

 numbers affixed. 



19. Fifteen Cottonian, 1 Sloane, 18 Harleian, 6 Old Royal, 1 Lansdowne, 42 Egerton, 

 and 444 Additional Manuscripts, together with 90 Books of Reference, have been bound 

 repaired or lettered ; sixteen Papyri have been glazed, and five of the number framed. 

 Upwards of 1,300 volumes have been press-marked, or had the press-marks altered ; and 

 13,454 labels of shelf numbers affixed to the Cottonian, Old Royal, Harleian, Burney, 

 Arundel, Egeiton, and Additional Manuscripts, and to the Printed Books of Reference in 

 the Department. 



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

 No. 12,628 to No. 13,542 inclusive; and boxes made for them. One hundred and forty 

 trays have been made for Seals, and 21 injured Seals repaired. 



21. The whole of the collections of Charters and Rolls have been verified by the 

 Inventories. The Collections of Manuscripts have been twice dusted during the twelve- 

 month. 



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



, To the General Collection — 



Manuscripts -------- 374 



Original Charters and Rolls ----- 72 



To the Egerton Collection — 



Manuscripts -------- 32 



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



A fine copy on vellum of the Samaritan Peniateuch, written in the year of the Ishmaehtes, 

 766=A.D. 1364. 



P.A splendid copy of the Coran, in seven volumes folio, written throughout in large gold 

 characttrs, wiih illuminated ornaments, and executed (probably in Egypt or Syria) for the 

 Amir Hukn-al-Din, Steward of the Royal Household, a.h. 704-5^a.d. 1304-5. 



A volume containing the Capitularia of Charlemagne and Louis le Debonnaire, compiled 

 in the year 827 by Ansegise, Abbot of Fonlanelle; written on vellum in the tenth century. 

 It formerly belonged to the monastery of Vierzon, Dept. du Cher. 



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