The Book of Splendor: Genesis

This page of the manuscript is severely damaged. Extensive fading and "bleed-through"—where ink from the reverse side of the page has seeped through the parchment—have obscured the original Devanagari script, rendering the Sanskrit text largely unreadable to the naked eye.

[Several faint, illegible lines of text at the top of the folio] ?

...?

[Illegible marginal note, possibly three or four lines] ? [First line of main text block] ? [Second line of main text block] ? [Third line of main text block] ? [Fourth line of main text block] ? [Fifth line of main text block] ? [Sixth line of main text block] ? [Seventh line of main text block] ? [Eighth line of main text block] ? [Ninth line of main text block] ? [Tenth line of main text block] ? [Eleventh line of main text block] ? [Twelfth line of main text block] ? [Final short line of text block] ?

Technical details from the transcription: The text is identified as Sanskrit written in Devanagari (the "City of the Gods" script, used for sacred and classical texts). The primary cause of illegibility is noted as bleed-through (the chemical migration of iron-gall ink through the writing surface over centuries).