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 here. In this, I saw many rare manuscripts written in parchment and painted in miniature; especially that book in whose margins are painted by a rare hand, and wonderful diligence, all the insects in nature, in their lively colours and true resemblance.

Over against this Library, they shewed me, in the same room, the Library of Heidelberg, sent to Rome by the Duke of Bavaria after he had dispossessed the Elector Frederick Prince Palatin of Rhene, of his country, as well as of the Kingdom of Bohemia which he had seized on, at the instigation of Bethelem Gabor and others. See the Mercure Francois. They shewed me here, among divers other books, the book of designs of the said Prince Elector Palatin, which he had designed being young. Happy Prince if he had not designed to himself an other man's Crown.

In the great room of this Library there is an Iron door which letteth you into a more secret room, where the Registers of the Church