Melissa Nykanen In 1736, a man named John Gifford began doing something that today might seem too tedious for even the most bored among us. Gifford took his Bible and started counting the letters, syllables, words, verses, chapters, and books within. He then recorded his tallies in a small, 17th-century psalter. Tue, 12 May 2020 14:18:01 -0800 special collections 74a177ea-b100-4d41-a20a-d05b699388f3