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



Vitellius B.IV., B.V., B.VI., and D.IL, amounting together to 297 leaves restored to their 

 places. Other volumes re-arranged are, Sloane 3,371, Harleian, 2073, and Birch 4264-4266. 



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

 No. 13,984 to No. 15,202 (including the Norfolk Collection recently acquired); and slips 

 prepared for registration, from No. 10,120 to No. 10,366. They have also been separately 

 marked with the date of acquisition, from No. 9,463 to No. 14,508. 



13. Seven hundred and ten of the Additional Manuscripts, 251 of the Sloane, and 41 

 of the Lansdowne Collections, have been folio'd, and 267 Sloane collated. 



14. New Hand Lists have been made to the Sloane, Lansdowne, Aiundel, Burney, Har- 

 grave, and Additional Manuscripts, and new Drawer Lists of the Old Royal, Cottonian, 

 Sloane, and Harleian Rolls and Charters. The Registers of stamping, issue of Manuscripts, 

 Binding, and others, have been kept up, and press-marks entered of 485 Additional and 

 82 Egerton volumes. Stamps have been placed on every tract, letter, or separate document 

 in 90 volumes of the Sloane collection, 15 Cottonian, 3 Old Royal, 9 Harleian, 1 Lansdowne, 

 5 Egerton, and 1,195 Additional Manuscripts, with 92 Books of Reference. The Charters 

 and Rolls stamped are, 13 Cottonian, 253 of Various Collections, 2,463 Harleian, and 1,163 

 Additional. The total number of stamps affixed amounts to 43,398. 



15. The collection of Wellesley Papers has been removed, and new press-marks affixed. 



16. Twenty-seven Cottonian, 56 Harleian, 51 Old Royal, 2 Lansdowne, 1 Hargrave, 

 2 Egerion and 835 Additional Manuscripts, together with 139 Books of Reference, have been 

 bound, repaired, or lettered. Upwards of 1,770 volumes have been press-marked, or had 

 the press-marks altered, and 3,009 labels of shelf numbers have been affixed. 



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

 No. 1 to No. 2,970, and from No. 13,543 to No. 15,012 inclusive, and boxes made for them, 

 as also 2,419 Harleian Charters, from 83 G. 21 to 112. L 62 (completing the Collection), 

 and 666 of Various Collections, from XVL 1 to XXX. 41. Sixteen injured Seals have also 

 been repaired. The Original Municipal Act of Cologne, 1396, presented by Octavius 

 Morgan, Esq., m.p., lias been framed for exhibition, and photographic copies made of it. 



18. The Collections of Pipe Rolls and Church Briefs have been verified by the Inven- 

 tories. The whole of the Collections have been dusted twice, and some portions thrice during 

 the twelvemonth. 



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



To the General Collection — 



Manuscripts -------- 570 



Original Charters and Rolls --_-._ 1,224 



Original Seals and Impressions ----- g 



To the Egerton Collection — 



Manuscripts -------- 32 



The acquisitions during the past year have been important and extensive. Among those 

 more worthy of notice may be specified — 



A copy on vellum, in three large volumes, of the " Antiquitates Judaicse" and " De Bellis 

 Judseorum" of Josephus, in Latin; written at Alcobaga, in Portugal, in the 12th century. 



A fine copy, on vellum, of William of Malmesbury's work " De Gestis regum Anglise," 

 of the 12th century. 



An Orii^inal Charter of Baldwin II., Emperor of Romania (Constantinople), confirming 

 lands to St. Bavon at Ghent, in 1269, and sealed with his very rare golden Bulla, 



The Original Book of Investiture of Orciano and Revignana, granted by Guidobaldo II., 

 Duke of Urbino, to Count Pietro Bonarelli, in 1559-1568; beautifully written on vellum 

 and illuminated, in the original richly-ornamented bindiner. 



A large folio volume, containing Religious Legends, in Chmese, written on silk, and illus- 

 trated with miniatures. It is a magnificent specimen of Oriental calligraphy. 



Eighteen Greek Manuscripts, on vellum, including a very fine copy of the Homilies of 

 Gregory of Nazianzum, of the 10th century ; the Acts and Epistles, with the Commentary 

 of CEcumenius, of the 11th century (from the Library of Pope Pius VI.); five copies of the 

 Gospels, and four Lectionaries, of the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries. 



A valuable volume, containing the Latin Chronicle and Cartulary of Glastonbury Abbey, 

 to the year 1307, written on vellum not long after that date. 



" La Pelerinaige de la Vie Humaine," by Guillaume de Guilleville (the supposed source 

 of Bunyan's " Pilgrim's Progress"); written on vellum, with miniatures of fine art. 



A copy, on paper, of Dante's " Divina Comedia," of the 14th century, from the Antaldi 

 Library ; valuable on account of the correctness of its text. 



"The Dictes and Sayinges of the Philosophers," translated out of French by Earl Rivers ; 

 a copy on vellum, probably made from Caxton's edition of 1477. Presented by Sir Walter 

 Calverley Trevelyan, Bart. 



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