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# Sum of the Arts
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/sum-of-the-arts-31/
- Published: 2015-10-23T11:00:05.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:42:57.000Z
- Description: Number of surviving copies of the misprinted 1631 "Sinners' Bible" that demanded "Thou shalt commit adultery" = 10
- Author: Allison Meier
- Tags: Art, Sum of the Arts, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:13 (2014, 2015, part 3)

![Page from the 1631 "Sinners' Bible" stating "Thou shalt commit adultery" (courtesy Bonhams)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/10/sinnersbible01.jpg)

Page from the 1631 “Sinners’ Bible” stating “Thou shalt commit adultery” (courtesy Bonhams)

[*Sum of the Arts*](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/sum-of-the-arts/) *is a periodic tabulation of numbers floating around the art world and beyond.*

- Number of surviving copies of [the misprinted 1631 “Sinners’ Bible”](http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/21/rare-sinners-bible-on-sale-bonhams-auction?ref=hyperallergic.com) that demanded “Thou shalt commit adultery” = **10**
- Number of sections of the giant sequoia Mark Twain Tree [felled in 1891](http://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online%5Fbooks/science/hartesveldt/chap1.htm?ref=hyperallergic.com) given to museums = **2** (one to[ the American Museum of Natural History](http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/permanent-exhibitions/biodiversity-and-environmental-halls/hall-of-north-american-forests/giant-sequoia?ref=hyperallergic.com), one to the Natural History Museum in London, which [is going off view](https://twitter.com/nhm%5Flondon/status/656063528932012033?refsrc=email&s=11&ref=hyperallergic.com) until March of 2016 for renovations)
- Percentage of museum attendees who reported[ spending less than an hour](http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/oct/19/science-art-exploring-mind-museum-goer?ref=hyperallergic.com) in the Louvre during their visit = **6.5**
- Weight in tons of [a red granite sphinx](http://www.penn.museum/exhibitions/signature-galleries/egypt-sphinx-gallery?ref=hyperallergic.com) at Penn Museum, the[ largest ancient sphinx ](http://artdaily.com/news/82216/Penn-Museum-of-Archaeology-and-Anthropology-s-massive-granite-Sphinx-is-the-subject-of-new-book?ref=hyperallergic.com#.Vij6LxCrSi6)on view in the Western Hemisphere = **15**
- Years after his death that Hieronymus Bosch [was called](http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/21/hieronymus-bosch-exhibition-holland-small-museum-host-largest-ever?ref=hyperallergic.com) “the devil’s painter” = **30**
- Number of glazed ceramic sections [on a Renaissance relief sculpture](http://brooklynmuseum.tumblr.com/post/130813136357/there-is-a-new-addition-in-the-conservation?ref=hyperallergic.com) at the Brooklyn Museum, which was acquired in 1899 and is now being [restored](http://brooklynmuseum.tumblr.com/post/130813136357/there-is-a-new-addition-in-the-conservation?ref=hyperallergic.com) for an August exhibition in Boston = **40**
- Square footage of the “[mastodon paper](http://blogs.library.duke.edu/preservation/2015/10/19/the-largest-sheet-of-paper-ever-made-and-printed/?ref=hyperallergic.com)” published in 1859 by *The Constellation* newspaper in New York, which claimed at the time it was the biggest piece of paper ever made = **49**
- Percentage of [excavated ancient cuneiform writing](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-heck-cuneiform-anyway-180956999/?ref=hyperallergic.com) that communicates administrative information = **75**
- Percentage of 100 [surveyed prodigy violinists](http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123167/how-make-virtuoso-violinist?ref=hyperallergic.com) who started their music studies before the age of seven = **79**
- Number of angles each of Berlin’s Museum of Natural History 15 million insect specimens are being photographed from [for an online 3D imaging project](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/science/putting-museums-samples-of-life-on-the-internet.html?ref=hyperallergic.com) \= **100**