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



other copy of this tract is known. Robert Southwell, " MaeoniEe, or certaine excellent 

 Poems and Spirituall Hymnes," London, 1595; the first edition of this very rare work. 

 Rowlands, Samuel, "The Betraying of Christ. Judas in despaire. The seven words of 

 our Saviour on the Crosse. With other Poems on the Passion," London, 1598. This copy 

 has a MS. note of presentation from the author to his " lovinge freinde Mr. Eleazer 

 Barnes." 



In addition to the books mentioned above, about 100 works printed in the 15th century 

 have been acquired during the year ; thus adding still further to the strength of the 

 Museum Library in the Department of " Incunabula." 



Geo. Bullen. 



Department of Maps, Charts, Plans, and Topographical Drawings. 



I. Catalofjuing and Arrangement. — (rr.) The number of titles (including both main-titles 

 and cross-references) written for the Catalogue of Maps and Charts during the year 

 amounts to 7,180; those transcribed fourfold for insertion, to 6,4.38. 



(A.) Press-marks have been applied to 1,288 maps and 5,749 titles. The number of 

 small hand-slips written for press-marks is 1,107, and 1,514 hand-slips of purchases have 

 been made; 248 hand-slij^s of topographical views and ground-plans have also been written. 

 3 Indexes have been made lor Atlases, and 6 Indexes for topographical views and ground- 

 plans, and 3 Indexes have been written for the Catalogue. 



(c.) 320 Maps, in 9,977 sheets, and 331 Atlases, have been entered for the binder, and 

 114 volumes and 1,037 Maps have been returned from the binder, the former bound, and 

 the latter mounted, 571 on cards, 360 on union, and 106 on jaconet. 68 volumes have 

 received separate letterings. 168 volumes of the Ordnance Survey liave been bound. 

 94 sheets of the Ordnance and 293 sheets of the Geological Survey have been mounted. 



{d. ) An incorporation has been made into 3 copies of the Catalogue of 9,162 Titles, in all 

 27,486 Titles, neces.^itating the removal in each of the three copies of 4,311 Titles, and the 

 addition to each of 27 new leaves. 4,500 slips of the third copy (Wo to Zz) have been 

 relaid in order to form new volumes. About 16,200 slips of the fourth copy of the Cata- 

 logue have been mounted. 33 volumes (U to Z) have been bound. 



(e.) The number of Atlases returned to their shelves from the Reading Room was 942, 

 the number of Maps 1,132, making a total of 2,074. 



(y.) The number of Stamps impressed on Maps was 11,8()4. a 



II. Additions. — (a.) The number of Maps Avhich have been received by the Copj^right 

 Act is 520, in 1,886 sheets, and 8 Atlases and 2 parts of Atlases have also been received 

 by copyright ; 154 Atlases and 979 Maps, in 4,128 sheets, have been obtained by 

 purchase ; and 15 volumes and 652 Maps and Drawings, in 703 sheets, have been pre- 

 sented. I 



Besides the students who have consulted Maps and Atlases in the Reading Room, thei-e 

 have been in the course of the year 256 visitors to the Department on special geographical 

 inquiries. 



Among the more interesting acquisitions of the year may be mentioned the' following : — 



A large English Chart, on parchment, of the coasts of Brazil and Africa of the early 

 date of 1647, bearing the legend, " made by Nicholas Comberford, dwelling neare to the 

 West end of the Sclioole House, at the XX signe of the Plat in Radcliffe, anno 1647." 

 Two illuminated and gilt MS. Maps, on parchment, by Jose da Costa Miranda ; one of 

 the Coasts of Florida, New J^pain and Africa, 1688 ; the other of the West Indies, 1698. 

 A most important Plan of Paris, by Verniquet, in 72 sheets, the result of 30 years' labour, 

 and finished in 1791. It is full of interest as showing the City before the period of the 

 destruction of a great number of convents, churches, and other notable buildings. Also 

 a re^jroduction, in the present year, by the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction, of a 

 drawn plan of Rome of the middle of the 10th century, by Leonardo Bufalini, found in 

 the Convent of the Madonna degJi Angioli in Cuneo, when it became the property of the 

 Italian Government. Chromo-lithographed by Bruno Salomone, and published at Rome 

 in 12 sheets, 1879. 



R. H. Major. 



Department of Manuscripts. 



1. Catalogue of Romances. — Articles in forty-two different Manuscripts have been 

 described or revised, relative to British and English traditions of Havelok, Guy of 

 Warwick, and Robin Hood. 



Sheets V to 2 D have been corrected and printed off. 



2. Catalogue 



