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Besides his immense collection of print- ed books, which has cost him upwards of a thousand sequins, P. Martini is in possession of original MSS. which no money can purchase, as well as of copies of MSS. in the Vatican and Ambrosian libraries, and in those of Florence, Pisa, and other places, for which he has had a faculty granted him by the Pope, and particular permission from others in power. He has ten different copies of the famous Micrologus of Guido Aretinus, and as many made from dif- ferent manuscripts of John de Muris, with several other very ancient and va- luable tracts in MS. He has one room full of them ; two other rooms are ap- propriated to the reception of printed books, of which he has all the several editions extant ; and a fourth to practical music, of which he has likewise a pro- digious quantity in MS.
The number of his books amounts to seventeen thousand volumes, and he is
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