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Mazarin's Library
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in,—in old and recent editions,—French, Italian, Spanish, German, Flemish, English, Dutch, Polish, Hungarian, Swedish, Finnish, Welsh, Hibernian, and Rutenian, together with other manuscripts to the number of about two hundred, and commentaries on the Bible in volumes of all sizes; and having closed and locked that room fast with a double turn, I gave the key to the gentleman already named.
Then I showed him the third mezzanine floor, full of books in manuscript, Hebrew, Syriac, Samaritan, Ethiopian, Arabic, Greek, Spanish, Provençal, Italian, and Latin as varied in their subjects as they were in their forms. And having locked it fast
