s; in the Inner Library, 31 volumes; in the
_Bibliotheca pontificia_, 21 volumes.

In the next place I will give the results of the examination of a
catalogue[394] of the Library, which M. Fabre, with much probability,
assigns to the year 1512[395]. It begins as follows with the Latin
Library:

Ad sinistra' Pontificis bibliothecam introeuntibus
In primo scanno supra [27]
" " infra [27]
Finis primi scanni sub et supra [54]

The nine seats (_banchi_) of the left side of the Latin Library are gone
through in the same way as the first, with the result that each is shewn
to have two shelves. The total number of books is 457, or 27 more than in
1481.

On the opposite, or right-hand side of the Library, the first two seats
have three shelves, and are described as follows:

In primo scanno supra [22]
" " infra [27]
" eodem scanno inferius siue sub infra [26]
Finis primi scanni sub et subter [75]

On this side of the Latin Library the number of books has risen to 360 as
against 313 of the previous catalogue.

In the Greek Library there are similarly two shelves to each seat, and the
total number of volumes is 407 as against 400.

The account of the Inner Library begins as follows:

In secretiori bibliotheca
In iij^o. scanno supra. [16]
" " infra [17]
" " inferius siue sub infra [21]

Three of the seats have three shelves; the rest two; and the total number
of volumes has become 222 as against 190: or, an average of 37 to each
seat.

The _Bibliotheca pontificia_ is introduced with the following heading:

In intima et ultima secretiori bibliotheca ubi libri
sunt pretiosiores.

Each seat has two shelves, and the total number of volumes is 277 as
against 259 in 1481. Among the MSS. occurs "Virgilius antiquus litteris
maiusculis"--no doubt the Vatican Virgil (_Codex romanus_), a volume which
fully justifies its place among those termed _libri pretiosiores_.

This catalogue closes with the following sentence:

Finis totius Bibliothece Pontificie: viz. omnium
scamnorum tam Latinorum quam Grecorum in prima, secunda,
tertia, et quarta eius distinctione et omnium omnino
librorum: exceptis armariis et c