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togctlier 5 the Black both in the P0ures and Infiripiion 
which fhew the meaning of theai, be* 
ins: ^Writing (as the aforefaid It istobe wiOiMthat 
Leaf J) inartificially fpread upon the Stlfitr^'nll^t; 
Wooden Block 5 here thick, there thin 5 obfeiv'd whether the sUa- 
fpreadins; and yellowifli 5 the Letters Priming jnk j^r 
extreamlyrude, and all together ma- d^ugewaaantien^smd cj 
Bifeftly (hewing that the Art Was yet in '^'^ »c»t • or if ther^- 
its Infancy. The Stamping of this Sr^h^jheftlTe wlo" 
Bookon one Side only^wasnot (asfome was cut upouWuod, 01 
think) becanfc the Prwier did Hot Comp^sMwlthP^.^L.^ 
^ i-r ViT» •/! /tf^"', whether t^erev^t re 
know how to dilpofe the Pages in inch natum foE the Book-smden, 
manner, as might be proper and eafy 
for the Book:Btnders afe s for it has its 
Signatures all along in Mimfcuk Letters^ (fet in the mid- 
dle of the Page, which is remarkable 5) but becaufe it was 
thought that the Paper would not bear a fecond Impreffion 
oh the back fide 5 juft as the Bookri^riters of thofe tiines f when 
Paper began to be cheap, and to be made up into Books ) 
would yet have the fir ft and laft Leaf of each ^aUrmo^SemOy 
&c. to be of Farchment for ftrength'sfake. This Book fas I 
remember J is imper fed, and has no D ait now appearing, and 
perhaps never had any 5 neither has fuch another Book as 
this, which contains the Hijl&ry of St John and the Jpsca- 
lypfe^ in fuch like wooden coloured Piftures and Infcriptions. 
This is inlcribed L A TJ D. E. the fame Bodleyan Li- 
brary, and has its iSi^/^^/z/rex alfo ia Majtifcnle Letters ( as in- 
deed I have obferved Sigmtnres in many MSS. of different 
Ages, ashighasiGOO years. ago and upwards, exprelicd 
either by Letters or Number s>) This Book, tho Printed on 
one Side, and Pafted as the former ^ is yet more elegant, 
and Ihews that the Art was much improved- And here it 
may not be impertinent to obferve, that in the fame Library 
(^Arch. B. EodL 8§,) is an antient MSS with the fame Figures 
and Infcriftions^ tho the Habits oi the Figures be different, 
thofe of tlis MS being of the older Fafhion, and 'tis 
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