IV CONTENTS. 
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Department of Manuscripts— continued. page 
Books and papers containing Autograph works and inscriptions . . .13 
Autographs, &c, of Shakspeare, Spenser, Milton, Nelson, Wellington . . 14 
Letters of English and Foreign eminent men, 16th-19th Centuries . . 14 
Autographs of English and Foreign Sovereigns 15 
Autographs, generally of modern date . . . . . 1 5 
Illuminated and other Manuscripts . ... . . .15 
Photographs of Early Illuminated Manuscripts and Anglo-Saxon Charters . 16 
Early Biblical Manuscripts .......... 16 
Deeds and Papyri . . . . . . . . . .17 
Impressions of the Great Seals of English Sovereigns . . . .17 
Impressions of Ecclesiastical, Monastic, and Baronial Seals . 18 
Department op Prints and Drawings. 
Introduction (Exhibition in the King's Library) . . . . . .19 
Portraits and Historical Prints ......... 21 
Water-colour Drawings (Henderson bequest) ....... 55 
German and other Playing-cards (Meyrick gift ; &c.) . . . .59 
Department of Coins and Medals. 
Electrotypes of the finest Ancient Coins in the National Collection (Exhibition 
in the King's Library) ......... 63 
Selection of the finest and most interesting Medals in the British Museum — 
Italian, German, French, Dutch, and English . . . . .65 
English Military and Naval Medals . .68 
ANTIQUITIES. 
Introduction 69 
Lycian Boom (Architectural and sculptured remains from ancient cities in 
Lycia) 70 
nglo-Roman Antiquities (Sarcophagi — Tessellated Pavements — Pigs of Lead 
— Ogham Inscriptions, &c.) . . . . . . . .73 
Roman Iconography (Busts and Statues of Roman Emperors and of Greek and 
Roman personages) .......... 74 
First Gr.eco-Roman Room (Statues, heads and reliefs of Deities and heroes, 
of the Grseco-Roman period) 76 
