ACCOUNTS, &C,, OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 



scripts, lately acquired, have been repaired or bound. Ninety-three volumes of the old 

 Collections have been repaired and re-bound. 



Eight volumes of the Class-Catalogue have been bound, and eighty-nine volumes of 

 Printed Books have been repaired and re-bound. 



Five Papyri have been repaired and cased. 



Verification. — The several Collections of Manuscripts have been verified by the shelf- 

 lists ; and the Additional Rolls and Charters have been verified as far as No. 15,291. 



Eight hundred and ten Manuscripts have been placed, and entered in the hand and 

 shelf-lists. The Cotton Collection has been re-arranged. 



Eight hundred and sixty-one Manuscripts, Rolls, Charters, and Printed Books have 

 been stamped. Total of impressions, 21,008. 



Eight hundred and twenty-six Manuscripts have been folio'd. 



The number of Manuscripts delivered in the Reading Room during the year is 20,697 ; 

 and of those used by students in the rooms of the department, 1,595. 



The number of Rolls and Charters delivered to Readers is 243. 



The Acquisition of Manuscripts during the year is as follows : — 



General Collection -------- 240 



Egerton -- ---129 



Charters - -3,046 



Amongst those of principal interest are the following: — 



Bede's Exposition of the Gospel of St. Luke, in six Books. An English MS. on 

 vellum of the 12th century ; finely written, with ornamental initial letters, and in an 

 ancient binding. Small folio. 



The Gesta Romanorum, and portions of the Moralitates of Robert Holcot ; written 

 on Paper, by a German hand, in the 15th century. Quarto. 



A carefully written copy of John Arderne's treatises on Fistula, surgical opera- 

 tions and medical recipes, in Latin ; with numerous coloured figures in the margins, 

 and drawings of operating instruments. The same volume contains an English 

 version of Johannes Plutearius de Simplicibus, and tracts on Medical Botany, one of 

 which is accompanied with clever drawings of plants. Vellum, 15th century. Folio. 



A Chartulary of the monastery of St. Swithin of Winchester, containing copies 

 of documents from the time of Edward the Confessor to King Henry the Third; 

 written in the 13th century, with later additions of custumaries, rentals, etc., of the 

 15th century. Vellum. Folio. 



An illuminated Latin Psalter of about the year 1300; originally the property of 

 the family of BaiUeul of Flanders. Quarto. 



A very richly-illuminated book of the Hours of the Virgin, written in France at 

 the beginning of the 15th century. The borders are of arabesque work, with birds 

 and insects, and grotesque figures. The calendar is illustrated ; and there are 14 

 larger miniatures, painted apparently by an Italian artist, or by one showing strong 

 Italian influence, who has also added, to the ornamentation throughout the volume. 

 The titles of the offices are in letters of gold. Small quarto. 



A long Legendary Life of the Virgin Mary, compiled from Epiphanius, Ignatius, 

 Johannes Damascenus and others, in Latin rhyming verse, in four Books ; with 

 prologues to each, and with gloss and notes. On paper ; written probably in Flanders, 

 in the 14th century, and profusely illustrated with curious outline drawings, slightly 

 coloured, by different hands. Small quarto. 



A series of careful tracings by Professor J. O. Westwood from the most ancient 

 Irish and English MSS. 



The first and second parts of an unpublished Treatise on the Sacrament of the 

 Body and Blood of Christ, in French, composed by King Edward the Sixth, in the 

 year 1549 ; in his autograph, with corrections by his French tutor. The King states 

 the occasion of the work to be the diversity of opinions on the subject of the Sacrament 

 at that particular time. 



Peter Buchan's Collection of Scottish Ballads. 



The Memoirs of Sir John Reresby, Bart., to the year 1689 ; his own copy, and 

 containing much which is not found in the printed editions. Two volumes, in the 

 original binding, stamped with the cipher " Sir J. R." 



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