The size of the largest cuts, as defined by the plain lines which form the border, is about ten and five-eighths inches high, by seven and six-eighths inches wide; of the smallest, ten and two-eighths inches high, by seven and three-eighths wide.[II-37] The order in which they are to be placed in binding is indicated by a letter of the alphabet, which serves the same purpose as our modern signatures,--engraved in a conspicuous part of the cut. For instance, the first two, which, as well as the others, might either face each other or be pasted back to back, are each marked with the letter +a+; the two next with the letter +b+, and so on through the alphabet. As the alphabet--which has the i the same as the j, the v the same as the u, and has not the w--became exhausted at the forty-sixth cut, the forty-seventh and forty-eighth are marked with a character which was used to represent the words “et cetera;” and the forty-ninth and fiftieth with the terminal abbreviation of the letters “us.” In the copy described by Heineken, he observed that the directing letters +m+ and +n+ were wanting in the twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth cuts, and in the copy under consideration they are also omitted. The m, however, appears to have been engraved, though for some reason or other not to have been inked in taking an impression; for on a careful examination of this cut,--without being aware at the time of Heineken having noticed the omission,--I thought that I could very plainly discern the indention of the letter above one of the angels in the upper compartment of the print. [Footnote II-37: In the copy of the Biblia Pauperum in the British Museum, Inches. Inches. The largest cut is 10-4/8 high, and 7-5/8 wide. The smallest -- 10-1/8 -- -- 7-5/8 -- In the Historia Virginis, also in the British Museum, The largest cut is 10-3/8 high, and 7-2/8 wide. The smallest -- 9-7/8 -- -- 6-7/8 --]