ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. I7 



Bulstrode Whitelocke's History of the forty-eighth year of his age; 1653. Auto- 

 graph. Presented hy John B. Marsh, Esq. 



Designs for historical medals commemorative of events in the latter part of the 

 reign of Louis XIV., by Sebastien Leclerc ; with notes and descriptions. 



Memoirs of Admiral Sir George Byng, afterwards Viscount Torrington ; to the 

 year 1705. 



Autobiographical memoirs, in French, of Ekaterina Romanovna, Princess Dashkova 

 (or Daschkaw), transcribed, in 1805, during a residence with the Princess, by Miss 

 Martha Wilmot, afterwards Mrs. Bradford, from the original draft ; with insertions 

 in the handwriting of the Princess. Followed by letters and papers of Princess 

 Daschkaw. Presented by Mrs. Anne Daschkaw Brooke, nee Bradford. 



Professional memoranda of John Philip Kemble ; 1788-1815. Four volumes. 

 Transmitted by the Executor of William Bodham Donne, Esq. 



Letters of John Stuart Mill, written in his fifteenth year to his father and con- 

 taining a journal of a tour in the south of France ; 1820. Presented by Mrs. Clara 

 Esther Digweed. 



Letters addressed to Rowland (afterwards Sir Rowland) Hill, relating to the 

 introduction of Penny Postage; 1837-1857. Bequeathed by Sir Rowland Hill, 

 K.C.B. 



An Ordinary and collections of foreign coats of arms, compiled by Alfred William 

 Morant, f.s.a. Nine volumes. 



A volume of sacred and other music, by English composers, in lute notation. 

 Paper ; circ. 1600. 



Several volumes of musical pieces, by English, German, and Italian composers ; 

 18th and 19th centuries. 



E. Maunde Thompson. 



Department of Oriental Manuscripts. 



I. — Arrangement and Cataloguing. 



The descriptive list of the Oriental MSS. acquired during the year 1881 has been com- 

 pleted and transcribed for the use of the readers. The same MSS. have been entered 

 into the Oriental Register and into the Oriental Inventory. 



A descriptive list of a portion of the MSS. acquired in 1882, has been prepared. 

 The collection of Hebrew and Arabic MSS., lately purchased of Mr. Shapira, has been 

 arranged and partly described. 



The descriptive list of the Oriental MSS. included in the Additional Series has been 

 carried on from Additional 6,000 to Additional 9,501. The Hebrew MSS. occurring 

 between the above numbers have been described in full and entered into the slip-index to 

 the Hebrew Collection. 



Additions to the first two volumes of the Persian Catalogue have been prepared. 

 Three indexes to the same catalogue have been compiled and revised for press. Twelve 

 sheets of the third volume, signed Z — 2 Q, have passed through the press. 



Recently acquired MSS., one hundred and twenty-one in number, viz.. Or. 2373-2493, 

 have been folio'd, labelled, and bound. 



1 1 . — A cquisitions. 



One hundred and eighty-six Oriental MSS. have been acquired in the course of the 

 year, tiz., 181 by purchase, and five by donation, as follows : — 



Hebrew .-_----_ 19 



Arabic, in Hebrew character - - - - - 78 



Hebrew and Arabic, in Arabic character - - 45 



Persian in Hebrew character - - - - 10 



Arabic ---------4 



Armenian --------19 



Pali 4 



Shan ---------3 



Hindustani --------2 



Syriac ---------4 



Chinese -_----__i 



Total - - - 186 

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