[497] For the history of the Escõrial, see Ford, Handbook for Spain, Ed. 1855, pp. 749-763, and Descripcion ... del Escorial, Fra de los Santos, fol. Madrid, 1657, with the English translation by G. Thompson, 4to. London, 1760.
[498] I have to thank the librarian, Monsignore Ceriani, for kindly allowing this photograph to be taken for my use.
[499] Gli Istituti Scientifici etc. di Milano. 8vo. Milan, 1880, p. 123, note.
[500] Boscha, De Origine et statu Bibl. Ambros. p. 19; ap. Grævius, Thes. Ant. et Hist. Italiæ, Vol. ix. part 6; see also the Bull of Paul V, dated 7 July 1608, approving the foundation and rehearsing the statutes, in Magnum Bullarium Romanum, 4to. Turin, 1867, Vol. xi. p. 511.
[501] For the history of the Bibliothèque Mazarine see Franklin, Anc. Bibl. de Paris, Vol. iii. pp. 37-160.
[502] Franklin, Anc. Bibl. de Paris, Vol. iii. pp. 55-6.
[503] The minute of the conservators of the library authorising this change is printed by Franklin, ut supra, p. 117.
[504] Macray, Annals, ut supra, p. 37.
[505] Macray, ut supra, p. 80.
[506] Elmes. Life of Sir C. Wren, pp. 180-184. Parentalia, p. 261.