Dix — Note upon the Leaves of the First Book Printed in Dublin. 405 



or outer cover. What book or work was contained in the outer or later cover 

 is not known. It was empty and without a trace of its contents or of any 

 lettering. 



The leaves of the Book of Common Prayer were pasted together, and 

 there was some difficulty in detaching them. This, however, was done by 

 Mr. Tucker, one of the staff of the Public Eecord Office, Four Courts ; and 

 then the leaves were mounted on guards, and bound in the form in which 

 they now appear. Each leaf has been compared with the copy of the Prayer 

 Book in Trinity College, and found to be identical : even the watermark on 

 the paper is the same. Each leaf found is different from the others, and only 

 one is wrongly numbered. The discovery of so many leaves is remarkable ; 

 they form nearly a fourth of the entire volume. Purther, the copy in 

 Trinity College is much cut down, while the recently discovered leaves have 

 larger margins. The average size of each leaf is llf inches by 8| inches. 

 The measurement of the printing on a page is about 9 by 5^ inches, or, 

 including heading, 9| by ^\. 



I give below the number of each folio as it appears on the top right- 

 hand corner of each leaf. This Book of Common Prayer was not paged, 

 but each leaf or folio was numbered. I also give opposite the folio number 

 the signature where it appears at the foot of that numbered leaf. On only 

 one leaf (fol. cxi, verso) does an initial letter appear. 



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xxi 



Cv 











xxii 













xxiii 













xxiiii 













xxix 



Dv 











XXX 













xxxi 













xxxii 













xxxvi 



Eiiii 











xxxix 













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