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Excerpt from The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A. D. 1400 to 1875, Vol. 1: With Appointments to Monasteries and Extracts From Consistorial Acts Taken From Mss. In Public and Private Libraries in Rome, Florence, Bologna, Ravenna and Paris
Collections of books and manuscripts, and even her smaller cities, such as Bologna, Modena, Parma, Ravenna, Verona and Ferrara, have public or private depositaries of literary treasures, all Of which are accessible to students and eu quirers, without much dimculty. Suitable letters of intro duction will gain the traveller easy admittance to Diocesan and Municipal archives, and to such of the Convent libra ries as have not been removed under the provisions of the recent laws Of Suppression of the Religious Orders. In the matter Of manuscripts, so great is their number and so varied their nature, that the task of classification becomes extremely difficult, and to frame a complete index is in some cases, as in that of the diplomatic papers in the Frari at Venice, absolutely impossible. The visitor must therefore often trust to the good nature and skill Of local archivists, and librarians, for information in special branches of study, for which he would else vainly search within countless tomes of puzzling catalogues. The pos.
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