| Show in the british Mux euni leaving the cases containing special letters of great men for abo those e in which are preserved miscellaneous manuscripts the visitor Is simply dazed by the extent and value of the collection the department contains more than volumes of manuscripts written in oriental languages langu ases and each one Is either a rare work in itself or a representative of a particular type there are more than a hundred ancient greek coptic and latin papyri and other volumes of various kinds while mot of these are interesting te only to t the e ec Ge holar many of the oriental exhibits have a peculiar interest for the merely curious visitor one pall manuscript Is engraved in beautiful characters on twenty tire five leaves of silver another Is written on lacquered palm leaves leaver with inlaid letters of mother of pearl another la Is on a she t of gold and others on ivory the favorite material for this class 0 of f manuscripts Is palm paini leaves and some ot of the volumes consist of several hundred ruch leaves bound in covers of ivory lippin cotts |
