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and I h respectively, of the text of the First Set are imprinted, 
arranged in two columns, at right angles to one another, one run¬ 
ning parallel to the longer, the other with the shorter side of 
the book. The former stands near the outer, the latter near the inner 
edge of the page. The outer column consists of two impressions each of 
the recensions I g (11. 9, 11, 13, 14) and I h (11. 17, 18, 19) ; while the 
inner column consists of four impressions of the recension I g. The two 
pages are shown in the marginal diagram, the formula of the Fifth Set 
being indicated by abed , and those of the 
First Set, by ccc ( = C=I g) and eee 
(=E=I/i) respectively. The circum¬ 
stance of the two mutilated formulas of 
the First Set appearing here in this un¬ 
expected and purposeless way seems to 
render the hypothesis of a forgery al¬ 
most impossible, both with regard to 
the whole book No. VIII, and to the 
blocks for the recensions I g and Ih. 
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Sixth Set. (Plate XIII and PI. XIV, fig. 1.) 
This Set comprises three books. Its peculiarity is that it is not 
appropriated to one particular text only, but presents a collection of 
several texts. What was found occasionally as a rare exception in the 
other sets—the introduction of a few impressions of an alien text into the 
midst of its own proper one—forms in the Sixth Set its main feature. 
Of the three books comprised in it, No. I gives the texts of the 
Second and Fifth Sets. No. II gives the texts of the Second, Fourth and 
Fifth Sets, and No. Ill those of the First, Second, Fourth and Fifth 
Sets. 
No. I. Book. (Plate XIV, fig. 1.) 
Belongs to M. 7. Found at Aq Tala Tuz. Size, 11 x8J". Number 
of forms 30. Paper, variety III5. Greatly damaged by exposure to wet; 
also some large fatty stains and burns. Print almost illegible. Bound 
with three nails; guards being large rhomboid pieces of flat, thin, orna¬ 
mental copper, as shown in fig. 1 of Plate IV. 
As a rule, the pages of this book present the texts of the Second 
and Fifth Sets. There are only 6 exceptional pages (out of a total of 
114 printed ones), viz., 6, 43, 94, 95, 116, 117, which give the text of 
the Fifth Set alone. 
The text of the two sets are printed in three' columns on each 
page, running parallel to one another and to the longer side of the 
