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English: Plate 17 from Carter, Thomas F. (1925). The westward movement of the art of printing

PLATE 17, Fig. A. Two Leaves from a Folded Book in the Uigur Language. The heading is in both Uigur and Chinese. The two circles indicate that the original manuscript from which this was copied was in the Indian form known as pothi, i.e. with the pages laid together and bound through with a thong. The printers copied the original so faithfully that they even represented in print the hole for the thong, though in this folded form no thong was used. (Found at Chotscho. 56 V24 cm.)

PLATE 17, Fig. B. Chinese Block Book, with Buddhist Text. Two leaves from a sutra in verse, in "folded book" form. The originals of this and the six preceding illustrations were found by the expeditions of Grünwedel and Le Coq in the region of Turfan. Their dating is uncertain, but must in all cases be earlier than io A.D. (Found at Kurukta, north of Tuthn. Size 25.3 X 18.5 cm.)