REMARKS 
THE LIBRARIES OF GREECE, 
BY 
THE REV. R. WALPOLE, M. A. 
WITH AX ACCOUNT OF THE 
CATALOGUE OF BOOKS NOW PRESERVED IN THE 
MONASTERY OF PATMOS ; 
AS IT WAS COPIED FOR THE MARQUIS OF SLIGO. 
These Remarks of Mr. WALPOLK being too long to be inserted in the 
Notes, among the Extracts from his MS. Journal, the Author lias 
prefixed them as an appropriate Introduction to this Volume. 
THE names of Nicholas the Fifth, of Francis the 
First, of some of the Medici family, of Bessarion, 
Busbeck\ and Peiresc, are held in just esti- 
mation by the lovers of antient literature. By 
their means, the Libraries of Europe have 
been furnished with great numbers of valuable 
Manuscripts, collected with cost and labour, in 
different parts of the Levant. The first of these 
persons laid the foundation of the VATICAN 
LIBRARY, and supplied it with many Manu- 
scripts from Greece. From the same country, 
Francis the First, at the exhortation of Budceus, 
(l) In this manner he writes his own name, always. Lamb. 1. i. 99. 
& 1. xi. addit. p. 1007. 
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