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The Court: the same who built the beautiful church of St. Charles
Borromeo, in the suburbs. The Library is 246 German feet in length, by
62 in width: the oval dome, running at right angles, and forming
something like transepts, is 93 feet long, and 93 feet high, by 57 wide.
The fresco-paintings, with which the ceiling of the dome in particular
is profusely covered, were executed by Daniel Gran. The number of the
books is supposed to amount to 300,000 volumes: of which 8000 were
printed in the XVth. century, and 750 are atlas folios filled with
engravings. These 750 volumes contain about 180,000 prints; of which the
pecuniary value, according to the computation of the day, cannot be less
than 3,300,000 "florins argent de convention"--according to a valuation
(says M. Bartsch) which I made last year. This may amount to L300,000.
of our money. I apprehend there is nothing in Europe to be put in
competition with such a collection. [113] The reader may not be
displeased to consult, for one moment, the _Bibliog. Decameron_; vol. i.
pp. xliii. iv. [114] [A sad tale is connected with the procuring of a
copy, or fac-simile, of the initial letter in question. I was most
anxious to possess a _coloured_ fac-simile of it; and had authorised M.
Bartsch to obtain it at _almost_ any price. He stip

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