88 
Dr. Hoernle —Antiquities from Central Asia. [Extra No. 1, 
IIIc. Fairly clean ; a few fatty stains and small burns ; the two outside 
leaves torn to shreds. Print almost illegible, owing to defective 
printing. 
Text printed exactly as in book No. IV, save that the exceptional 
arrangement of the text in two columns never occurs. 
No. VI. Book. 
Belongs to M. 7. Found at Aq Tala Tuz. Size, 8 x5%". Number 
of forms, 26; but the first form is in shreds, and the last form is 
misplaced through a blunder of the binder, standing fifth in the present 
series. Riveted with three copper pegs. Many large fatty stains and a 
few burns. Paper, variety III6. Print almost illegible, owing to defec¬ 
tive inking. 
Text printed in 2J columns on each page; each column consisting 
of two impressions of the formula, of which, accordingly, four complete 
and two half-impressions stand on every page. The columns run 
parallel to the narrower side of the book, and are arranged exactly 
as in Book No. IV. Here, too, as in No. IV, there are a few exceptional 
Form 11. 
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pages on which the imprints take reversed positions. An 
example, which shows also another misprinted anomaly, 
is given on the margin from form 11. 
It may be noted that there is a slight blank margin 
at the top of the pages (as indicated in the diagram), 
while at the bottom the print runs to the very edge. 
This shows the modus operandi of the printer, who com¬ 
menced printing at the top of the page, though (as shown 
by the inner column on page 3 of the diagram) not 
(no margin.) always with the initial edge of the block. But when he 
came to printing the half-impression on that inner column, he turned 
the block round, apparently with the object of getting the initial portion 
of the formula on to the page. It seems that, as long as the whole of the 
formula could be accommodated on the page, the printer did not care, 
in what position he placed the impression of it; but when he could only 
accommodate a portion of it, he was careful in printing its initial 
portion. This seems to be a reasonable explanation of the anomaly, 
and it points to what apparently must be taken to be the beginning of 
the formula. 
No. VII. Book. (Plate XII.) 
Belongs to M. 6. Purchased from Badruddin. Size, ll|x8J". 
Number of forms, 12 ; all cut throtigh at the back into separate leaves. 
Exceptional in being bound with only two twists of paper, and in 
commencing its printing on the second, and stopping it on the ante- 
