1899.] Section II,—Block Prints, 
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Fourteen of these variations occur within the first 36 printed pages 
alone. It is obvious that with such a planless arrangement of the texts 
no proper reading of the book is possible. It can have been intended 
only for mechanical use. 
No. VII. Book. 
Belongs to M. 7. Acquired by Mr. Macartney, together with eight 
other books, from Islam Akhun for Rs. 40. Said to have been found 
in a half-buried house in Aq Tala Tuz, see Introduction, p. xvii. 
Size, 13X11J". Number of forms, 39. Paper, variety IIIc. Many 
leaves bear fatty stains, and a few are damaged by burns. Riveted 
with three copper pegs ; the guards consisting on one side of irregular 
quadrangular pieces, about 2|" square, cut from an ornamented plaque, 
similar to those shown in Plate IV, fig. 1, on the other side of circular 
pieces, about 1^" diameter, resembling a coin (see Plate IV, figs. 2-9). 
Printing very carelessly done. The block was not properly inked, the 
impressions are very faint; moreover they are not properly adjusted ; not 
^infrequently one or two lines of two successive impressions are printed 
over one another ; often the columns are not kept straight. 
Contains recension I/, t.e., lines 1, 2, 4, 5 of A, printed in four 
columns on each page, each column (except the second) consisting 
of seven or eight impressions ; but in the second column on each page 
