The members of this university have so great a value for their library, that they prefer it, both as to the number and rarity of its books, to that of the Vatican, persuading themselves that there is none in Europe to be compared with it: but, considering it dispassionately, it does not contain so numerous or such scarce books, as to deserve the praise of being the only library, or the most considerable one in the world, there being many others which are equal or even superior to it. In the gallery of the library, there are many portraits of men illustrious for their learning hung round the walls. The medals, both ancient and modern, which are preserved there in great numbers, were shewn to his highness; they are kept separate, and classed in their proper places, according to their dates, without confusion. His highness likewise saw the sword which was sent by Pope Leo X. to King Henry VII. before the apostacy, along with the title of Defender of the Faith; and there was also shewn to him a liquor, which, place on the finest marble, penetrates it by its subtleness, and works itself in as deep as about the thickness of a piaster (261-2).

He went next to the Anatomical Theatre; and, except the skin of a man stuffed with tow, a human foot, from the end of one of whose toes was a horn growing out, and sundry animals and skeletons hung up against the wall, there was little to be seen that was curious (262).

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