l8 ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATIIS, c'-CC. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



15. The Egerton Manuscripts have been numbered and registered from No. 2,019 to 

 2,041, the latest acquisition; and the Register has been transcribed for the use of the 

 Reading Room from No. 1,637 to 2,019. 



16. One hundred and twenty-four volumes of the old Collections have been bound or 

 repaired. 



17. Sixty-nine Charters and Rolls have been repaired, or their Seals mended. 



18. The Reading Room cojDy of the llegister of Additional Manuscripts has been con- 

 tinued from No. 26,622 to 26,788. 



19. A selection of Ancient Charters, and of Illuminated Manuscripts and Autographs 

 acquired during the year 1866, has been made for exhibition, and descriptions of them 

 prepared and printed. 



20. The descriptions of Manuscripts, Seals, Autographs, &c., exhibited in the Depart- 

 ment, have been revised and extended for the printed Guide. 



21. The whole collection of Manuscripts has been verified by the Shelf Lists, and the 

 Shelf and Hand-Lists have been compared and corrected. 



22. New Hand Lists have been made for the Additional Manuscripts and the Select 

 Cases. 



23. Eight hundred and seventy-seven volumes of the Egerton Collection have been 

 press-marked. 



24. The volumes placed in the First West Room have been re-arranged. 



25. One thousand six hundred and one Manuscripts and Printed Books have been 

 stamped, the number of impressions amounting to 42,646. 



26. One thousand four hundred and one Manuscripts have been folio'd. 



27. Six hundred and eighty-six Additional Charters, viz., Nos. 16,531 to 17,216, have 

 been numbered and inventoried. 



28. The additions to the General and Egerton Collections during the year have been 

 as follows : — 



General Collection — ' 



Additional MSS. -------- 203 



Charters and Rolls - -------93 



Detached Seals __-__--- lo 



Egerton and Farnborough Collections — 



Manuscripts - - - - - - - - -15 



Charters ---- 117 



Of the Acquisitions, the more important are as follows : — 



A fragment of a Latin Treatise on The Virtues and Vices, by a naturalised citizen 

 of Genoa, grandson of Pellegrino Cocharelli, illustrated with miniatures of unusual 

 interest for truthfulness of expression, and for the subjects of history and social manners 

 depicted ; of the latter part of the 14th century. The frequent introduction and excellent 

 drawing of natural objects of all kinds, and of ships and buildings, connect these works 

 with the hand of the famous Genoese miniaturist of the family of Cybo, known as the 

 Monk of the Isles of Hyeres. 



Latin Hours of the Virgin Mary, ornamented with coloured borders containing grotesque 

 figures, and with 35 large miniatures of the finest execution. The volume was prepared 

 for a lady of the family of Saluces, of Piedmont (probably Amedee, daughter of Manfroy, 

 Seigneur de Carde), about a.d. 1450-60. 



The Livre de Chasse of Gaston Phebus, Comte de Foix, with numerous partially tinted 

 drawings. At the end of the volume is the Collection of Prayers attributed to the same 

 author. The Livre de Chasse was composed in the year 1382, and the present copy is of 

 the beginning of the following century. 



Correspondence of William Capel, Earl of Essex, when Resident Ambassador at Turin, 

 1733-1736. 



Cantos I. and II. of Lord Byron's Childe Harold, with his autograph notes and 

 corrections. 



Proof sheets of Lord Byron's British Bards and Hints from Horace, with autograph 

 corrections. 



Autograph draft of Lord Byron's Speech in the House of Lords, 27 February 1812. 



Mrs. Inchbald's Play, Such Things Are ; autograph. 



Note Book, Letters, etc., of Sir John Harington. 



Autobiography and Original Papers of Carl Linnsus. 



Builder's Letter-book and Accounts relating to Westminster Bridge, 1734-1744. 



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