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Hebrew MSS. and printed books, was presented room vi. 
by Solomon da Costa, Esq. mss. 
Against the press \ hang three specimens of 
minute writing, forming the portraits of Queen 
Anne, Prince George of Denmark, and the Duke 
of Gloucester their son. 
Against the press XVIII. hangs an original deed 
in Latin, written on papyrus, being a conveyance 
of some land toa monastery ; dated Ravena, A? 
57°2y bought at the sale of the Pinelli library. 
And opposite to it is a large specimen of the reed 
(Cyperus Papyrus) of which that kind of paper 
is made. 
In the second window hangs an Italian note to 
Sir William Hamilton, written on modern papyrus, 
explaining the mode of preparing it. 
* - 
SEVENTH ROOM. 
THE ROYAL LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS , 
Deposited in XXXIII. Presses. 
THE COTTONIAN LIBRARY OF MANUSCRIPTS , 
Deposited in XXI. Presses. 
These two libraries are not classed in a strict room vil- 
scientific order.* ^ss. 
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* Of the King’s Library, a catalogue compiled by Mr. David Casley was 
printed in the year 1734, in quarto : and of the Cottonian Library, there 
are no less than three catalogues extant: the first by Dr. Thomas Smith, 
printed 1696, folio ; ..the second, being an attempt towards a classical 
arrangement, printed in 1777, octavo; and the third, improved and com- 
