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 merly known. The chief of these books were these.

A vast Hebrew Bible too heavy for any man to lift up.

An ancient copy of the Septuagints translation in Greek, after which the Bible hath been printed both in Rome and London.

The Act of the Apostles in Greek curiously written in Golden Letters.

The Gospel written by S. Chrysostoms's own hand.

An Hebrew Bible written in sheets of parchment pasted to one another, and rowled up: hence the word volumen, for a book.

A little book writen [sic] in bark of trees: hence the word Folium, for a leaf in a book.

Certain old Roman Table books.

A China Tablebook of wood, in which they wrote with a pointed steel.

A curious China book all in Hieroglyphs, and folded up in many folds: our Purchas in his curious navigations hath both Printed and deciphered it.

Polidor Virgil's history of England