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divided between the two systems. But what is puzzling is that the 
pairs of these two systems, in their present succession, do not follow in 
any intelligible order (e g., first the 37, and afterwards the 41, or vice 
versa), but they succeed one another pell-mell. If either system had been 
followed throughout, or if the whole of the pairs of one system had 
followed the whole of the pairs of the other system, an intelligible order 
of reading would have resulted; one might have read first one set of 
alternate pages, and then turning the book right round, one would have 
been able to read the other set of alternate pages. As it is, the condition 
of the book suggests that it was not really intended to be read intelli¬ 
gently, but to have its leaves turned mechanically. As the leaves, 
however, are not numbered, and their serial succession is not fixed, it 
is possible that the leaves do not now stand in their original order. 
The latter might have been (say) first 41, then 37, and the break of 
uniformity might have been due to a lapsus on the part of the printer. 
No. III. Book. 
Belongs to M. 6. Acquired from the Rev. Mr. Hogberg. Size, 
8 x 5| inches. Number of forms 22. Paper, variety III6. One leaf 
(23rd) damaged by two holes. Extensive fatty stains on many pages. 
Riveted with three copper pegs. 
Contains recension la, printed in two columns on each page and 
standing upright and reversed on alternate pages ; thus upright on pages 
4 and 6, but reversed on pages 5 and 7, and so forth. 
No. IV. Book. 
Belongs to M. 5. Size, llfxS". Number of forms, 30, all cut 
into separate leaves. Paper, variety III b. Twenty leaves, more or 
less damaged by holes, evidently due to singeing. Many pages soiled 
with extensive fatty stains. Riveted with three copper pegs. 
Contains recension la, printed in two columns on each page, with 
a wide interval; each column consisting of two impressions; accord¬ 
ingly the full text, four times on each page; but reversed on alter¬ 
nate pages; see Woodcut No. 11. The arrangement of the columns is 
similar to that in No. II, Pothi. As a rule, they stand either head 
to head, or foot to foot, on any pair of juxtaposed pages. There 
are altogether 57 such pairs. Taking their present order of suc¬ 
cession, on 19 of them the columns stand head to head, and on 29, 
foot to foot; while on the remaining 9 this arrangement is not 
observed, the position being head to foot. Seeing, however, that the 
forms are all cut into separate leaves, those leaves. on which the 
exceptional nine pairs stand, may be easily arranged so as to preserve the 
