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It contains the whole of the Pauline epistles with a few lacunae, and has a famous stichometric list of books prefixed in another hand to Hebrews.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

Another problem which presented itself was the question of retaining the irregular stichometric division in some plays and passages which are not in verse.

From The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Saintsbury, George