i2 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



12. The Register of Donations to the Department has been kept up to the end of 1863. 



13. The arrangement of the Caley and Devon Topographical Papers has been completed, 

 as also of the Legal and other Manuscripts of the St. John Collection ; of the Rippon 

 Correspondence, the Grant Letters, and the additional Hunter Papers. The Birch MSS. 

 4,221-4,227, and Add. 25,102, 25,131, have been re-arranged. 



14. Portions of the Cottonian Manuscripts, Otho a. in.., a. viii., a. x., b. in., b. x., 

 B. XI., c. II., Vitellius a. in., a. v., a. vii., d. xi., e. vn., e. viii., e. xii. (injured in the 

 fire of 1731) have been identified and arranged, and additional leaves recovered and inserted 

 in Tiberius a. ix., a. xv., b. ix., Galba a. i., a. viz., Otho A. vi., b. v., b. xiii., ViteUius 

 A. VIII., c. XIV., D. XVII., E. I., and F. xi. 



13. The Additional Manuscripts have been numbered and registered, from No. 25,000 to 

 No. 25,490 (up to the end of 1863), and they have been bound, repaired, lettered and 

 stamped, from No. 24,480 to No. 24,742, and from No. 24,843 to No. 26,174. 



16. The Egerton Manuscripts have been numbered and registered, from No. 1,943 to 

 No. 1,945 ; and they have been bound, lettered, and stamped, from No. 1,910 to No. 1,943. 



17. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been arranged and numbered from No. 16,138 

 to No. 16,280, and registered from No. 1 to No. 1,262, No. 2,171 to No. 4,578, No. 

 5,350 to No. 6,333, and No. 10,593 to No. 11,800. The entire collection has now been 

 registered up to the last-mentioned number. The Charters have also been separately 

 marked with the date of acquisition, from No. 15,208 to No. 16,280. 



18. Six hundred and thirty-nine of the Additional Manuscripts, 333 of the Sloane, 18 

 of the Cottonian, 155 of the Lansdowne, and 26 of the Egerton Collection, have been 

 folio'd. 



19. Stamps have been placed on every tract, letter, or separate document in 29 volumes 

 of the Cottonian Collection, 3 Sloane, 31 Old Royal, 14 Harleian, 47 Egerton, and 1,496 

 Additional Manuscripts ; also on 41 Addition;)! Charters, and 144 Books of Reference. 

 Extra stamps have also been placed on 62 volumes of various collections. The total number 

 of stamps affixed amounts to 52,309. 



20. Pre 

 temporal 

 in the show-cases 



21. Fifty-three Cottonian, 81 Sloane, 45 Old Royal, 48 Harleian, 14 Lansdowne, 

 3 Arundel, 44 Egerton, and 817 Additional Manuscripts, with 148 Books of Reference, 

 have been bound, repaired, or lettered. 



22. The Additional Charters and Rolls have been cleaned, repaired, and stamped, 

 from No. 16,158 to No. 16,280: 353 injured seals have been repaired, and new boxes 

 made for them, where required. 



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



To the General Collection — 



Manuscripts -----___ 401 

 Original Charters and Rolls - - - - - 114 



To the Egerton Collection — 



Manuscripts --------3 



Amongst the acquisitions more worthy of notice may be specified — 



A Cartulary on vellum of the Abbey of Peteiborough, during the time of Abbats William 

 Gynge and John de Depynge, 1396-1438. 



The Bundbuch, or Acts of the Swabian League, from 1480 to 1495, on vellum. A 

 fine copy of the Chronicon Ottonis, Episcopi Fnsingensis, with a continuation to a.d. 1274, 

 on vellun). 



A volume of original Slate Papers, of much historical value, extending from about 1327 

 to the end of the reign of Henry VIIL Many of these papers are from the King and 

 Cromwell to Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, when ambassador in France, from 

 1532 to 1538. 



An autograph Letter of Ludovico Ariosto, addressed to Nicolao Zardino, relative to 'the 

 desire of the Duke of Ferrara to make terms with Florence and Lucca; dated 16 October 

 1522. 



The ofiicial copy of the Process of Canonization of Carolo Borromeo, Archbishop of 

 Milan, in 1605-6, signed by the prelates and notaries present; with many original Papers 

 added : from the Archinto Lib^ar}^ 



A large collection of Legal and other Manuscripts belonging formerly to Oliver St. John, 

 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. Among them is a copy of his speech in defence of 

 Hampden, on the question of ship-money, in 1637, with his autograph additions. 



The concluding portion ot the Correspondence of Francesco Terriesi, Florentine Minister 

 at London, 1689-1691 ; transcribed horn the Archives at Florence. 



Three 



ress marks have been permanently affixed to 1,325 Additional Manuscripts, and 

 ily to 1,131. Fresh labels have been supplied to the whole of the objects exhibited 



