nd collected by Trithemius, abbot of Spanheim, who died 1516,
7; recovery of, 17-24; of the classics, disregarded and mutilated by
the monks, 18; researches for, at the restoration of letters, 19;
great numbers imported from Asia, 20; of Quintilian discovered by
Poggio under a heap of rubbish, ib.; of Tacitus found in a
Westphalian monastery, ib.; of Justinian's code found in a city of
Calabria, ib.; loss of, ib.; unfair use made of by learned men, 22;
anecdotes concerning, 22-25; of Galileo, partly destroyed by his
wife's confessor, 28; ancient, frequently adorned with portraits of
the authors, 42; destruction of, at the Reformation, 51; of Lord
Mansfield destroyed in the riots of 1780, and of Dr. Priestley by
the mob at Birmingham, 53; loss of many of Lady Mary Wortley
Montagu's letters, 54; loss of letters addressed to Peiresc, ib.; of
Leonardo da Vinci, ib.; anecdotes of manuscripts of several
celebrated works, 375-377; description of the ancient adornments of,
ii. 28; of Pope's versions of the Iliad and Odyssey, 110; of Sir
Matthew Hale, bequeathed to Lincoln's Inn, to avoid their mutilation
by the licensers of the press, 220; slaves employed to copy, 398; of
the Vision of Alberico, preserved in the king's library at Paris,
422: of Galileo's annotations on Tasso, 444; destruction of Hugh
Broughton's, by Speed, 445; destruction of Leland's, by Polydore
Vergil, ib.; dilapidation of the Harleian, 446; suppression of one
relating to Sixtus IV. by Fabroni, ib.; of the Marquis of Halifax
suppressed, 447; Earl of Pulteney's and Earl of Anglesea's MS.
Memoirs suppressed, ib.; anecdotes of the suppression of various,
448-452; mutilators of, 448; of Oldys's, iii. 493.

MARANA, John Paul, author of the Turkish Spy, i. 377-379.

MARBLES, presenting representations of natural forms, i. 244-247.

MARE CLAUSUM, written by Selden in answer to the Mare Liberum of
Grotius, ii. 80; copies preserved in the chest of the Exchequer and
in the Court of Admiralty, ib.

MARIONETTES, improved by the English, iii. 238.

MARLBOROUGH, the great Duke of (See BLENHEIM), account of his
wealth, iii. 108.

MAROLLES, Abbe de, a most egregious scribbler, i. 350; wrote his own
memoirs, 351; good advice in the postscript to the epistle
dedicatory of that work, ib.; his memoirs, ii. 538; anecdote of him
and De L'E