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Many of the twelfth-century Great Bibles, such as the Winchester and Bury St. Edmunds Bibles, were apparently intended for reading in the monastic refectory during meailtime: they resided permanently on or near the lectern provided for that purpose, and a number of them are "scored for reading", with tonic accents on the emphasized syllables of difficult or unfamiliar words, such as Hebrew names. That use isn't really liturgical, of course, but...Elizabeth McLachlan, Art History, Rutgers. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%