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Show The Giant Bible. Thoro Is In tho Royal library at Stockholm, among other curiosities, a manuscript work known ns tho Giant Bible, on account of Its extraordinary dimensions. It measures about 35 inches in length-nnd is about 19 Indies In breadth. It requires three men to lift It. There nro 309 pages, but Boven havo been lost. The parchment of which tho book Is composed requlrod tho Hkins of 1C0 asses. Thoro are two columns on onch pago, and tho book contains tho Old nnd Now Testaments, with extracts from "Josephus." The initial letters nro Illuminated. Tho binding Is of oak, four and one-half centimeters In thickness. Tho book narrowly escaped destruction in tho fire in the Royal palace of Stockholm in 1697. It was saved, but somewhat damaged, by being thrown out of a window. |