ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 11 



Eleven hundred and seventy-nine Manuscript volumes, Charters, and Printed Books, 

 have been stamped, with a total of 32,226 impressions. 



One thousand and ninety-five Manuscripts have been folio'd. 



The number of Manuscripts delivered in the Reading Room during the year is 20,768; 

 and of those used by students in the rooms of the department 2,623, in addition to those 

 shown to visitors. The number of Charters delivered to readers is 605. 



The acquisitions during the year have been as follow : — 

 General Collection — 



Additional MSS, 371 



Charters and Rolls -.---- 914 



Detached Seals and Casta -------33 



Egerton and Farnborough Collections — 



Manuscripts - - - - - - - - -21 



The following are of chief importance : — 



A volume of Latin Offices and Prayers, illustrated with miniatures of Flemish Art of 

 great beauty. On vellum; of the end of the 15th century. Duodecimo. 



The Hours of the Virgin Mary, in Latin, richly iilumlnated, and having on some of 

 the pages coloured borders, very finely designed, of Italian art. On vellum, of the 15th 

 century. Small quarto. 



The Heptameron de Nouvelles of Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre ; having 

 names of persons not supplied in the printed copies, and variations in orthography from 

 the early editions. In the original binding, and with the date 1550 stamped on the edges 

 of the pages. The queen died in December 1549, and the first edition of the Noavellcs 

 appeared in 1558. 



A large collection of Original Letters and State Papers of Spain, principally of the 

 time of Philip II., and partly of the two succeeding reigns, with copies of political tracts. 

 In 174 volumes. They com2)rise — a series of official and private letters and memorials 

 from noblemen and others to the king, or his chief ministers, from 1565 to 1591 ; in 16 

 volumes. Three volumes of letters of Secretaries Pedro de Hoyo, Antonio Perez, and 

 Matteo Vasquez, to Philip II., submitting despatches and other papers, with the king's 

 instructions noted by his own hand In the margins, in the years 1560-1591. Correspon- 

 dence relating to the Escurial, in 1574 and 1575. Original letters of Philip II. to Am- 

 bassadors and public officers, in 1557-1581. Correspondence with the Ambassador at 

 Rome in 1567. Register of letters of D. Juan de Zunlga, Ambassador at Rome, from 

 1569 to 1582 ; in many volumes. Letters of the Ambassadors at Venice, 1579-1595; at 

 Genoa, 1575-1577 ; at Turin, in 1580-1585; and in Germany and Flanders, in 1624- 

 1629. Reports and letters relating to affairs of the Treasury; to the Military Orders ; 

 to Ecclesiastical preferments ; to the provinces of Navarre and Aragon ; and to the 

 Governments of Milan (including autogra])h letters of Cardinal Borromeo) and Naples. 

 Correspondence of the Conde ile Ficalho, Chamberlain of the Empress Dowager Maria, 

 and Viceroy of Portugal, from 1592 to 1617. A volume of papers relating to England and 

 Ireland in the years 1579-1597 ; and others relating to affairs of Flanders and France ; 

 with much other correspondence relating to the internal affairs of Spain and her Colonies. 

 The collection is very rich in holograph letters of princes and eminent persons of the 

 period it embraces, and many of the papers have marginal notes In the handwi'Iting of 

 Philip II. 



A second volume of transcripts of State Papers, at SImancas, relating to England, 

 from the year 1576 to 1 589. Presented by J. A. Froude, Esq., who refers to them in 

 his History of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 



A volume of original letters of Lord Burghley, and various papers of Sir Christopher 

 Hatton and others, relating to Mary Queen of Scots, and principally in connection with 

 the Babington conspiracy, 1572-1588. 



A large collection of original letters, accounts, and other papers, relating to the family 

 of Caryll, of Sussex; in 31 volumes. Presented by Sir Charles Wentworth Dllke, Bart. 

 They include letters of James IT. and Queen Mary, in 1692-1710; correspondence of 

 John Lord Caryll, in 1648-1711 ; a long series of correspondence of the family of Caryll 

 of West Grimstead and Lady Holt in Harting, from 1672 to 1768 ; household books and 

 accounts, from 1615 to 1736; letters of Simon Frazer, Lord Lovat, General Cadogan, 

 and others, to the Countess of Seaforth, in 1715,1716; with miscellaneous letters and 

 law papers. 



Copy of the correspondence between Sophia Dorothea, wife of George the First, and 

 Count Kbnigsmark ; from the orginals in the University Library of Lund. 



272. B 2 Correspondence 



