J 2 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



11. The Register of Donations to the Department has been kept up to the end of 1861. 



12. An enlarged and corrected Transcript of the Catalogue of Harleian Rolls and Charters 

 is in progress. 



13. The arraD^^ement of the Robinson, Grantham and Warren Hastings Papers has been 

 completed, ;is also of a Collection of Letters and Papers relating to France and Italy. The 

 contents of MSS. Sloane, 2970-2980. Cott. Tib. A. vi., Harl. 6,563, 6,718, 7,502, and Add. 

 5,015,* 19,400, have been re-arranged. 



14. The Additional Manuscripts have been arranged, numbered and registered from No. 

 24,027 to No. 24,333 (including the additions to the end of 1861); and bound, repaired, 

 lettered and stamped, from No. 20,509 to No. 20,633 (Gualterio Papers), No. 23,130 to 

 No. 23,142 (Lauderdale and Buonarrotti Papers), No. 23,207 to No. 23,340, No. 23,607 to 

 No. 23,779, and from No. 23,879 to No. 24,022. 



15. The Egerton Manuscripts have been numbered and registered from No. 1,900 to 

 No. 1,928; and bound, lettered, and stamped, from No. 1,719 to No. 1,731 (Bentinck 

 Papers). 



16. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been arranged and numbered from No. 15,298 

 to No. 15,584, and registered from No. 4,579 to No. 4,800, No. 13,029 to No. 13,417, 

 and No. 13,766 to No. 13,986. The detached Seals have been numbered from xxxix. 58 

 to XXXIX. 83. 



17. Five hundred and forty-c^ight of the Additional Manuscripts, 325 of the Sloane, 247 

 of the Lansdovvne, and 30 of the Egerton Collection, have been folio'd, and 181 Sloane 

 collated, 



18. Stamps have been placed on every tract, letter, or separate document in 42 volumes 

 of the Sloane Collection, 3 (^ottonian, 10 Old Royal, 9 Harleian, 56 Hgerton, and 677 

 Additional Manuscri|)ts ; also on 298 Additional Charters, and 112 Bouks of Reference. 

 The total number oT stamps affixed amounts to 57,503. 



19. .An Inventoiy of the Select Charters, and Hand-Lists of the Charters and Rolls to 

 tlie year 1860, and of the Detached Seals have been made; the shelf-marks entered to Add. 

 Ch. 10,515-15,507, and press-marks entered of 33 Sloane, 209 Egerton, and 508 Additional 

 Manuscripts. 



20. Two Cottonian, 131 Sloane, 50 Harleian, 8 Old Royal, 2 Lansdovvne, 3 Hargrave, 

 25 Egerton, and 663 Additional Manuscripts, with 122 Books of Reference, have been 

 bound, repaired, or lettered : 88 Autograph Letters have been framed, and 36 glazed cases 

 made to protect manuscri|jts exhibited to the public, from dust. Three Papyri have also 

 been mounted under glass, and boxes made for five others. 



21. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been repaired, and marked with numbers, 

 from No. 15,243 to No. 15,507 inclusive, and boxes made for them. Seventy-five Pipe 

 Rolls have been cleaned and repaired, and 18 injured Seals repaired. 



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



To the General Collection — 



Manuscripts -------- 307 



Original Charters -------90 



Original Seals _.__--_5 



To the Egerton Collection — 



Manuscripts --------42 



Original Charters - - - - - - -15 



Among the acquisitions more worthy of notice may be specified — 



A volume containinii the Poem of Aureliiis Prudentius, " De pugnS. Vitiorum et 

 Virtutum," written in England at the beginning of the 11th century, with illustrations in 

 outline, drawn by an Anglo-Saxon artist ; also the Poems of Hildebert, Bishop of Le Mans 

 (ob. 1134), of the 12th century, on vellum. From the library of Arclibishop Tenison. 



A very early copy of the Carmina of Venantius Fortunatus, on vellum, probably of the 

 9th century. From the Tenison library. 



A fine copj% on vellum, of the English translation of Higden's Polychronicon, made by 

 John Tievisa in 1387. This volume is of peculiar interest, having been written for Richard 

 Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, son-in-law of Thomas Lord Berkeley, for whom the trans- 

 lation was undertaken. From the Tenison library. 



The " Historia Anglorum," in ten books, of Henry of Huntingdon, with a continuation 

 to the year 1203, on vellum, of the )4th century. From the Savile Collection. 



A valuable copy of the " Taxatio Ecclesiastica Anglise," of Pope Nicholas IV. circa 

 A.D. 1291, witli a subsequent taxation for the See of York, in the reign of Edward II. ; on 

 vellum, 14th century. From the Savile Collection. 



A Register of the Documents issued from the Privy Seal Office, from the reign of 



Richard 



