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THE BOX. 



Such engravings appear to have been distri- 

 buted as devotional pictures among the laity, 



and to have been occasionally preserved by the 

 monks, who pasted them into the earliest printed 

 books with which they were furnished. That of 

 St. Christopher above alluded to, was discovered 

 in the monastery of Buxheim, near Meiningen, 

 and is now in the possession of Earl Spencer. 

 Collections of them appear also to have been 



