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First Alexandrinus.
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Since .its arrival in this country, the volume has been rebound, the leaves have been numbered, and the modern Chapters have been indicated; — these figures are all the work of Patrick Junius. The nature of the ink, and the great age of the manuscript, have in many places caused the partial or almost total disappearance of the characters, and they cannot he read without the aid of a lens and in a strong light. Moreover,
the ferruginous matter contained in the ink has produced an infinite number of minute holes in the parchment, giving it the appearance of lacework,
and which occasionally, but not so often as could be expected, add seriously to the difficulty of the reading. These holes are not in all the leaves but only in a portion of them, and the vellum is frequently more legible on one side than on the other. The inscriptions and subscriptions to the respective books, as far as they remain, are all ancient, but some must be referred to the second hand.