Nos. 



Sheet. 



, Leaf. 



(1) 



1 



2 



(2, 3) 



3 



5,6 



(4,5) 



5 



9, 10 



(6,7) 



6 



11, 12 



(8,9) 



7 



13,14 



(10, 11) 



11 



21,22 



(12, 13) 



12 



23, 24 



(14,15) 



15 



29, 30 



(16, 17) 



16 



31, 32 



(18, 19) 



17 



33,34 



(20, 21) 



18 



35, 36 



1898.] Dr. Koernle— Block-Prints from Khotan. 127 



A curiosity of this book is that it shows a few letters, apparently- 

 written in an altogether different script, inscribed in the middle of the 

 blank space, which separates line 7 from line 8 of the text. See Plate I, 

 fig. 3. They cannot have been, of course, on the block of the text; they 

 might have been imprinted from separate small blocks ; but they rather 

 look as if they were inscribed by hand. Tiiey are shown on Plate II, 

 in facsimile, and occur at irregular places in the book, as follows : — 



Page. Nos. Sheet. Leaf. Page. 



4 (22, 23) 19 37, 88 73, 76 



9, 12 (24, 25) 20 39, 40 77, 80 



17, 20 (26, 27) 21 41, 42 81, 84 



21, 24 (28, 29) 26 51, 52 101, 104 



25, 28 (30, 31) 27 53, 54 105, 108 



41, 44 (32, 33) 28 55, 56 109, 112 



45, 48 (34, 35) 30 59, 60 117, 120 



57, 60 (36, 37) 31 61, 62 121, 124 



6J, 64 (38, 39) 32 63, 64 125, 128 



65, 68 (40, 41) 36 7J, 72 141, 144 

 69, 72 



On each of the pages, above enumerated, two of these additional 

 inscriptions occur. For each page has two impressions of the block 

 and, therefore, two intermediate blank spaces. It will also be seen, 

 from the numbering of the pages, that if a " form " is unfolded into an 

 open sheet, the additional inscriptions all show on the same side of the 

 sheet. Thus the " form " or sheet 3 folds into the leaves 5 and 6 ; 

 then, the outer pages (or the obverse of the sheet) number 9 and 12, 

 while the inner pages (or the reverse of the sheet) number 10 and 11. 

 Here the additional inscriptions stand on the obverse side, on pages 

 9 and 12, while there are no additional inscriptions on the reverse side 

 of the sheet, ^.e., on pages 10 and 11. Accordingly, the obverse side of 

 the sheet bears four additional inscriptions, i.e.^ two on each page. 

 These additional inscriptions consist of 4 or 5 or 6 letters. 



(4) Block-print 8. This is again one of the 13 books received 

 from Mr. Macartney in October last. Its pages measure 5J x 7f inches, 

 and it consists of 37 forms, each made up of one folded sheet. It has 

 no Special cover ; the first and last leaves are blank ; so is the first page 

 of the second leaf, and the second page of the penultimate leaf. It is 

 stitched in three places, along the longer side, by means of three copper 

 nails fixed with small copper plates, exactly like block-print a. The 

 printing is not very well done, the cause apparently being the rather 

 indifferent quality of the ink. 



