Eustace 1815, 2, 57 (2) (Q909)

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excerpt on notable manuscripts in the Vatican library in Rome
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Eustace 1815, 2, 57 (2)
excerpt on notable manuscripts in the Vatican library in Rome

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    But the superiority of this library arises not from the quantity of printed books, but the multitude of its manuscripts which are said to amount to more than fifty thousand. Some of these manuscripts of the highest antiquity, such as that of Virgil of the fifth century, a Greek Bible of the sixth, a Terence of the same date ,& c. & c. were taken by the French and sent to Paris. (English)
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