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50 and delivered the key as before, I led him up to the main library, and opened for him the first room, which is very high and filled from floor to ceiling with books on canon law, politics, and other miscellaneous subjects.

Passing from this first room to the second, I showed him that it was full, like the first, of Lutheran, Calvinistic, Socinian, and other heretical books in all languages, with many Hebrew, Syriac, Arabian, Ethiopian, and Oriental books of all sorts, and that here also many had been piled on the floor for lack of room on the shelves.

Finally I led him to the two rooms in the large gallery, each about fifty or sixty feet long,