The chief acquisitions in manuscript books were various Hebrew volumes
(for £159), and a series of letters to Malone from Dr. Johnson, Mrs.
Siddons, and others; and in printed books, a perfect copy of Cromwell's
Great Bible, printed by Grafton in 1539, which was bought of Mr. Fry,
the well-known collector, for £100.
A sixth part of the general catalogue of MSS. was issued, containing the
Syriac, Carshunic and Mendean MSS., in number 205, which had been drawn
up by Rev. R. Payne Smith, M.A., and to which several facsimiles were
appended. And the eighth part, containing the Sanscrit MSS., in number
854, appeared under the editorship of Theodore Aufrecht, M.A., now
Professor of Sanscrit in the University of Edinburgh. A first
_fasciculus_ of this had been issued in 1859.