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Section II.—Block Prints. 
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of the book, as it covers every printed page but one. Formula VIII b 
is evidently a special one ; it is very small, consisting of four lines, of 
2, 3, 3 and 6 letters ; and it is only found on a very few pages. On one 
page it is found twice, printed in the middle and at the top of it, the 
rest of the page being filled with the ordinary long formula VIII a . 
On two other pages it is found similarly at their top ; and lastly there 
is one leaf, on which it occupies the entire surface of both pages. 
Curiously enough this is an isolated leaf, which is stuck in between the 
two leaves of a folded form. But from the page which exhibits the 
double imprint of formula VIII b (see Plate XV, fig. 1) it is evident, 
that both formulas were printed at the same time ; for the needful 
space (though only just barely sufficient) is purposely left for formula 
VIII b between the impressions of formula VIII a. 
The latter formula is printed ten times in a column on each page ; 
the column running parallel to the longer side of the book. Within 
the column the impressions of the formula stand, as a rule, upright 
and reversed alternately; though occasionally two upright or two 
reversed impressions follow consecutively, as may be seen on the 
facsimile page in Plate XV, fig. 1. 
Formula VIII b is also printed in a column consisting of ten lines 
of impressions ; but each line itself is made up of four impressions, 
standing alternately upright and reversed; so that the formula is 
repeated 40 times on each of the two pages of the leaf the surface of 
which it entirely occupies. On all other occasions (as on the facsimile 
page) where formula VIII b occurs, it only occupies one line consisting 
of four impressions. 
Among the fragments, found by me with the book there are two, 
which have a peculiar interest in bearing, in addition to the ordinary 
formula VIII a, a second small text, which I shall call formula VIII c. 
One of the fragments consists of a very narrow oblong sheet, folded in 
the middle into two leaves. Each of these leaves (see fig. 3 on Plate 
XIV) measures 6|x3"; and shows a clean cut along either of its long 
.sides. As these sides measure exactly the same as the breadth (or 
narrow side) of the book; it seems probable that the whole oblong 
sheet is simply a slip cut out of one of the forms of the book. And 
seeing that the slip is nearly blank on one side, it is further probable 
that the form, from which it was cut, was one of the outside, or 
covering, forms of the book which are now missing. The other piece 
is of a very irregular rhomboid shape, being apparently a piece torn 
off one of the leaves of one the outside forms of the book; for it 
shows on one side three full and one fragmentary imprints of the 
ordinary formula Villa in the usual column arrangement, while the 
