4 ON THE LIBRARIES OF GREECE. 
alone 1 , brought from the monasteries on the 
mountain; and a great part of those at Moscoiv' 
had been collected by the Monk Arsenius in 
Athos, at the suggestion of the Patriarch Nicon. 
We must add Thessaly, Chios, Corfu, Crete, 
Cyprus, Chalce (the island in the Propontis), 
Rhodes, and Epidauria, as places which have 
supplied some Manuscripts 3 . We should have 
had much valuable intelligence concerning the 
libraries in the monasteries of Thessaly, if the 
life of Professor Biornstahl had been prolonged. 
He had visited all of them ; and had resided 
many days at Triccala, for the express purpose 
of copying a Greek Manuscript belonging to a 
monastery. Biornstahl was attacked by a fever 
at the foot of Mount Olympus: here he was 
obliged to continue ten days, without medical 
assistance; and was then taken to Salonica, 
where he died, in July 1779- 4 
(1) Praef. to the Catalogue of the Coisl'm. Library. 
(2) In the Library of the Holy Synod. 
(3) See the following references: Diar. Ital. of Montfaucm ; Fabric. 
Bib. Gr. 7. 241; Fabrotus Not. Basilicorum ; Bib. Coislin. p. 178; 
Cram Turco-Grac. p. 498. 
(4) From a Writer of the date 1557, we have an important notice 
respecting a library on Mount Olympus : " Dicitur adhuc hodie in 
Olympo Monte Monasterium reliquum esse thesauro optimorum 
librorum dives ac celebre." Oral, de Stud. Vet. Phil, inter Melanc. 
Declam. 
