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expenditure of labour it might be brought to a successful completion. He offered to oversee the work on two conditions: that he should be free to modify the plan of
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and neighbouring regions. Rosweyde had proposed to publish only the original texts, without commentaries or annotations, but
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who had died shortly before, and report back his opinion as to what it was advisable to do with them. Bolland went to
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January volume was done in two garrets where Bolland kept his papers and books. As climbing the steep steps began to prove difficult, he asked for and obtained the use of a vacant room on the second floor, which later became the Bollandist Museum. The three volumes for February were
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Bolland began by outlining an even more ambitious plan. Rosweyde had confined his quest of original texts to libraries in the
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notes of explanation. He visited monastic libraries, collecting and copying a considerable number of documents.
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