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



The Welch Laws of Hywel Dda, on vellum, of the beginning of the loth century. This 

 volume formed part of the Collection of Welch MSS. presented by the Cymmrodorion 

 Society in 1844, but was theu missing, and has only recently been restored. 



A very large volume, written on vellum towards the close of the 14th century, containing 

 a mass of old English poetry and prose, chiefly of a religious character, it is remarkable 

 as being nearly a duplicate of, and written by the same hand as, the celebrated Vernon 

 manuscript, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. 



The Original Obituary and Martyrology of the monastery of Syon, near Isieworth ; com- 

 menced in the early part of the 15th century and continued down to the year 1640 ; on 

 vellum. 



Select lives from Plutarch, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruno Aretino, written on 

 the finest vellum, and ornamented with miniatures of fine Itahan art, of the middle of the 

 15th century. 



The original Document, in German, of the appointment of a municipal council in Cologne, 

 with the regulations established for the government of the town, dated 4th September 1396, 

 and ratified by the seals of the town and of the 22 guilds belonging to it; presented by 

 Octavius Morgan, Esq., m.p. 



Roll on vellum of the Procession to Parliament (3 Hen. VIIL, 1512) of the King and 

 Spiritual and Temporal Peers, with full length coloured figures and arms. 



The secret Autograph Correspondence of King Charles L with Henry Eirebrace, page of 

 his chamber, when in confinement at Carisbrook Castle, in 1648. 



The Official Correspondence of John Lord Carteret, when Ambassador in Sweden, and as 

 Secretary of State, from 1719 to 1745, in 34 volumes, folio; presented by the Rev. Lord 

 John Thynne, d. d., Canon of Westminster. 



The Original Correspondence of Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk, from 1712 to 

 1767; presented by the executors of the late Right Hon. John Wilson Cioker. 



A volume containing the oriiiinai subscription lists to Hogarth's Prints of "The Elec- 

 tion" and " Sigismunda," 1754-1764, with autograph remarks by the artist. 



The original Mortgage Deed of a dwelling-house in Blackfriars, dated 11th March 1612 

 (1613), and signed by William Shakspere. 



A Collection of Autograph Letters and Poems of Robert Burns. These poems are the 

 originals of the songs published in "Johnson's Scots' Musical Museum," in 1787-1794; 

 bequeathed by the late Archibald Hastie, Esq., m. p. 



A large Collection of impressions from Coffin-plates of the nobility and gentry, from 

 1727 to 1831; arranged by the late Sir George Nayler, Garter King-at-Arms, in 14 

 volumes, folio. 



23. The number of deliveries of Manuscripts to Readers in the Reading Room, amounts 

 to 23,090, and to Artists and others, in the rooms of the Department, to 3,696. 



Frederic Madden. 



Department of Antiquities. 

 L — Arrangement. 



Public Galleries. — The new Room on the Basement Floor, designed for the 

 Assyrian Sculptures, is nearly completed. 



The form of the Second Grseco-Roman Saloon has been slightly altered, for the better 

 exhibition of the Townley Venus. 



The Second Egyptian Room, and the First Vase Room have been ornamentally painted. 



The greater part, of the Greek and Graeco-Roman Mai-bles have been cleaned under the 

 direction of Mr. Westmacott. 



A further portion of the Roman and Grseco-Roman Sculptures has been placed on 

 pedestals of Derbyshire marble. 



The Architectural and Sculptural Marbles, discovered by Mr. Newton at Halicarnassus 

 in 1856-7, have been, as far as possible, repaired by the identification and re-adjustment of 

 numerous detached fragments which accompanied them. The Sculptures procured in 1846 

 by Lord Stratford de Redclifte from the same place, have been transferred to the temporary 

 gallery under the front Colonnade, and arranged in one series with the Collection sent 

 home by Mr. Newton. 



Most of the bas-reliefs, procured from Koyunjik under the direction of Sir H. C. 

 Rawlinson, k.c.b., have been repaired and fixed on .«lates, and some of them transferred 

 to the new Room on the Basement Floor, where they are now in course of arrangement. 



The most important objects in the Bronze Room have been experimentally arranged in 

 two central cases, pending the construction of proper cases for their exhibition. 



Photographs have been taken of many of the Grseco-Roman and Roman Sculptures by 

 Mr. b'enton, and copies are sold at the Museum. 



A new and cheaper Guide to the Collections of Antiquities has been drawn up and 

 passed through the press. 



236 Egyptian Antiquities, consisting principally of Tablets and stone objects in the 

 Galleries, have been described and catalogued. 



Fac-similes 



