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52 was locked fast and firmly secured with bolts extending across it above and below. And then, having brought him out of the said gallery and the two rooms just mentioned, which are joined to the gallery by the door on the level with the wardrobe by which he entered, I closed and locked it fast with a double turn, and delivered the key to the said Sieur Petit, for the fifth and the last time.

And having implored the said Sieur Tubeuf to use the utmost care to prevent as far as possible the dissipation of this the most beautiful, the best and the largest library which had ever been brought together in the world, containing, to my own