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Show Giant Among Bibles. There is In the Royal library at Stockholm, among other curiosities, a manuscript work known as the Giant Bible, on account of its extraordinary dimensions. It measures 90 centimeters centi-meters in length and is 50 centimeters in breadth that is, about 35 inches by 19 inches It requires three men to lift it. There are 309 pages, but seven have been lost The parchment of which the book is 'composed required the skins of 160 asses There are two columns on each page, and the book contains the Old and New Testaments, with extracts from "Josephus." The initial letters are illuminated The binding is of oak, four and one-half centimeters In thickness. The book narrowly escaped es-caped destruction in the fire in tha Royal palace of Stockholm in 1697. It was saved, but somewhat damaged, by being thrown out of a window. |