1*2 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



12. The Register of Donations to the Department has been kept up to the end of 1864. 



13. Tlie " James Burton " Papers, the Correspondence of Pope and Warburton, and a 

 large Collection of Plays, have been arranged and prepared for the binder. The Birch 

 MSS. Nos. 4,300-4,300, Additional Nos."2J,437, 25,598-9, Coltonian Faustina D.v., 

 and Harleian 6,589, have been re-arranged. 



14. The whole of the remvuning fragments on vellum and paper of the Cottoniau and Old 

 Royal Collections (injured in the fire of 1731), have been, as far as possible, identified, 

 arranged, and partially bound. Portions of the following Nlanusoripts have been recovered: 

 Tiberius A. xii., E, xi.; Caligula D. in.; Galba A. i., ii., iii., vii., xiv., xvii.; Otho A. v., 



VIII., IX., XI., XII., XIII., XIV., XVIII., B. III., IV., IX., XIII., C. IV., VII., VIII., XII., XV,, 



D. IX., E. XIV.; Vitellius A. vi , vii., C. v., D. i., v., vin., xi., xri., xin., xv., xvi., xx., 



E. I., II., IV., VII., IX. ; Old Royal '.) A. iii. ; and leues have been restored to twenty-five 

 other volumes of the Cottonian ;uid seven of the Old Royal Collections. 



15. The Additional Manuscripts have been numbered and registered, from No. 25,491 to 

 No. 25,905; and bound, repaired, lettered and stamped, from No. 24,743 to No. 24,842, and 

 from No. 25,175 to No. 25,611. 



16. The Egerton Manuscripts have been numbered iind legisterecl, from No. 1,946 to 

 No. 1,962 ; and bound and stamped, from No. 1,952 to No. 1,960. 



17. The Additional Charters and Roll? have been arranged, numbered, and marked with 

 the date of acquisition, from No. J 6,281 to No. 16,331 ; and registered from No. 11,801 to 

 No. 12,397. 



18. Six hundred and filty-five of the Additional Manuscripts, 259 Sloane, 123 Lansdowne, 

 15 Cottonian, 2 Old Royal, and 11 of the Egerton Collection, have been folio'd. 



19. Stamps have been placed on every tract, letter or separate document, in (5 volumes 

 of the Cottonian Collection, 2 Old Royal, 4 Harleian, 1 Lansdowne, 22 Egerton, and 1,169 

 Additional Manuscripts ; also on 132 Additionnl and 3 Egerton Charters, and 416 Books 

 of Reference. Extra stamps have also been placed on 59 volumes of various collectior^s. 

 The total number of stamps affixed amounts to 38,172. 



20. Forty-eight Cottonian, 13 Old Royal, 49 Harleian, 8 Lansdowne, 5 Arundel, 12 

 Egerton, and 566 Additional Manuscripts, with 416 Books of Reference, have been bound, 

 repaired, or lettered. Two hundred and tuenty-five Arundel Manuscripts have been armed, 

 and 153 Additional Maiuiscripis permanently press-marked. 



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

 from No. 16,281 to No. 16,316. 



22. The whole of the various Collections (with the exception of the Ciiarters and Rolls) 

 have been verified with the shelf-lists. 



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

 To the General Collection — 



Manuscripts ---_____ qqq 



Original Charters -------51 



hJidlee and Seals - ~ - - _ _ _ 71 



To the Egerton Collection — 



Manuscripts - - - - - - - -17 



Original Charters ---__. 3 



Among the acquisitions more worthy of notice may be specified — 



A folio volume on vellum, containing a Marlyrology of the Spanish Church, written at 

 the Monastery of Cardena, diocese of Burgos, in the year 919. 



A very fine copy on vellum, of the 14th century, of the " Catholicon" of Johannes de 

 Janua, large folio. 



" L'Histoire Ancienne, depuis la Creation jusqu'a Titus," with miniatures, 14th century, 

 vellum. 



The " Liber de Vita Christi," of Ludolph of Saxony, finely written and illuminated on 

 vellum at the close or' the 15th century, 3 volumes folio, It belonged afterwards to 

 Cardinal George d'Amboise, whose arms appear in it. 



Several iliuminated Horae, one of which appears to have belonged to Marv Studrt, when 

 wife of the Dauphin, afterwards Francis II. 



A beautiful little vidume written on vellum, with numerous miaiatures, containino- " Le 

 Chapellet de Jhtsus et de la Vierge," apparently executed for the Empsror Chades V. 

 or his brother Ferdinand, and, !rom the binding, believed to have b?lo-iged afterwards to 

 Margaret Tudor, wile oC James IV. of Scotland. Presented by the Right Honourable the 

 Earl of Home. 



The Poems of the Persian Poet Nizami, written and illu.ninated in exauisite style, a'ld 

 dated A. H. «40=A.D. 1441. 



A coii.-iderable Collection of Arabic, Persian and Syiiac MSB., v/hich belonged to the 

 late Rev. William Cureton, n.D., Canon of Westminster, and among whicii is th'e Biogra- 

 phical work of Ibn Khaliikan, written A. h. 65.j = a. i>. 1257, in the Author's Autograph. 



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