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cently founded by the Tuscan government. It was formed 
by Rosellini, who was sent to the East in 1829 in company 
with Champollion. They are all of the usual description, 
excepting two, both of which ought to be the subject of 
careful examination, — viz. the porcelain bottle with an 
inscription in Chinese characters, said to have been found 
in an Egyptian tomb: — “and the Scythian car,” found in 
the tomb of one of the warriors or captains of the host of 
“Rameses the Great,” B. c. 1560. It is wholly of wood, 
carefully worked, with ornaments, not numerous, ofivory. 
There are no pins, or bands, or other fastenings of metal, 
all such fastenings being of a vegetable substance sup 
posed to be birch bark. 
The academy have under their care the Chapel of 
St. Luke (see SS. Annunziala). 
Florence is remarkably well provided with libraries: 
for, besides those which we have reckoned, there are 
others of great importance. 
The Biblioteca Marucelliana, in the Via Larga, is 
principally composed of printed books, and was bequeathed 
to the public by its munificent collector, the Abate Fran- 
cesco Marucelli, who died in 1703. It is under the same 
management as the Laurentian. The Marucelliana is 
only open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, from nine 
till one o’clock, and is closed upon every holiday. It has 
an excellent though rather complicated classed catalogue, 
compiled by the founder. 
The Biblioleca Magliabechiana contains both manu 
scripts and printed books. It is named from its founder, 
Antonio Magliabechi, the most singular of bibliomaniacs, 
for he read all the books which he bought. Up to the 
age of forty years, he was a goldsmith upon the Ponte 
Vecchio, when he obtained the appointment of librarian 
to Cosmo III., having, however, already acquired a 
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