ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM 



Indexes. — The Catalogues of iicldltional and Egerton Manuscripts, acquired in the years 

 1860 to 1872, have been indexed, with the exception of the Ellis and Spanish Papers. 



Registers. — The Registers of Additional and Egerton Manuscripts have been con- 

 tinued to the latest numbers. 



Transcription. — The Catalogues of the following Collections have been copied in quad- 

 ruplicate -.—Additional MSS. from 25,093 to 27,606, and from 29,132 to 29,538 ; Harley 

 Charters 79. F. 1 to 80. D. 59, 83. x\. 1 to 84. E. 61, 112. F. 1 to 112. I. 62. 



The Index to the Catalogue of Seals has been similarly copied from A. to S. inclusive. 



Arrangement of Papers. — Forty-nine volumes lately acquired have been arranged for 

 binding. 



Binding. — Three hundred and six volumes of Additional and 147 Egerton Manu- 

 scripts, lately acquired, have been repaired or bound. One hundred and sixteen volumes 

 of the old Collections have been repaired and re-bound, and nineteen hundred volumes of 

 the Harley Collection have been labelled. 



Thirty-six volumes of transcriptions and eleven volumes of Printed Books have been 

 repaired and re-bound. 



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



The Old Royal, Cotton, Lansdowne, Toi^ham, Campbell, Additional from No. 15,292, 

 and Select, Rolls and Charters have also been verified. 



Four hundred and sixty Manuscripts have been placed, and entered in the shelf and 

 hand-lists. 



Eleven hundred and ninety-nine Manuscripts, Rolls, Charters, and Printed Books 

 have been stamped. Total of impressions, 18,072. 



Five hundred and fifty-six Manuscripts have been follo'd. 



The number of Manuscripts delivered in the Reading Room during the year is 22,957 ; 

 and of those used by students in the rooms of the department 1,902. 



The number of Rolls and Charters delivered to Readers is 267. 



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



General Collection - - - - - - - -199 



Egerton ----------35 



Charters -__„ 1,696 



The following are those of principal importance : — 



A volume of Lessons from the Gospels, in Greek ; of the 11th century. 



Lessons from the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles, in Greek; dated in the 

 year 1306. 



A Greek Hymnarium ; of the beginning of the 13th century. 



A Greek Book of Prayers ; of the 16th century, 



A treatise of Falconry, in Italian, with coloured illustrations ; of the beginning 

 of the 15th century. 



Two volumes of Cuttings of iM Inlatures, Initial Letters, and Borders, from a Latin 

 Missal written in England at the beginning of the 15th century. They are the 

 remains of a Manuscript of the highest value, as containing work of the best English 

 art of the time. 



A Latin Breviary, enriched with miniatures, borders, and ornamented initial 

 letters of the greatest beauty, by Florentine piinl^turlsts of the middle of the 15th 

 century. 



An Inventory of the Reliques belonging to the Abbey of St. Bertin, in St. Omer, 

 drawn up in the year 1465 ; on a long vellum roll. 



Two Rolls of Instructions for painted windows for the church of the Grey Friars 

 at Greenwich ; of the time of Henry the Seventh. 



Forty-nine volumes of Correspondence and Papers of Christopher, 1st Viscount 

 Hatton, and Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, Secretary of State in the reign 

 of Queen Anne. The earlier portion comprises much that relates to affairs of the 

 Isle of Guernsey, of which Lord Hatton was Governor, together with extensive 

 family correspondence, and volumes of letters of Sir Charles Lyttelton, Dr. Fell, 

 Bishop of Oxford, Dr. Edmund King, and others. The later portion princlpallj' 

 consists of letters from ministers at foreign courts and other public officers, includino- 

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