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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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