Riggs Miller 1776, 3, 71-72 (Q615)

excerpt on notable works in the Vatican Library in Rome

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English	Riggs Miller 1776, 3, 71-72	excerpt on notable works in the Vatican Library in Rome

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They told us the presses contained seventy thousand manuscripts; several curious antique Bibles, in Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, &c.; a very pretty Greek manuscript of the Acts of the Apostles in gold letters, given by Pope Innocent the Eighth to Charlotte Queen of Cyprus, with curious and high-finished miniatures. (English)

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Letters from Italy, describing the manners, customs, antiquities, paintings,&c. of that Country. In the years 1770. and 1771., to a friend residing in France. By an english woman, 3

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Letters from Italy, describing the manners, customs, antiquities, paintings, &c. of that country, in the years 1770 and 1771, to a friend residing in France. By an English woman

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