“…Whittaker and Watson 30, P451 and Rosengren 9 and Chu 31,32 ) ⟨a∕b, a∕c, a∕d, a∕e; p⟩ − ⟨b, c, d, e; p⟩ = b⟨a, a∕bc, a∕bd, a∕be; p⟩ (7) under the "well-poised" condition a 2 = bcde. Recently, the modified Abel lemma on summation by parts has successfully been employed by Chu [23][24][25][26][27][28][29]33 to review numerous transformation and summation formulae for basic hypergeometric series and by Chu-Jia [20][21][22] to investigate systematically theta series identities. In order to make the paper self-contained, this lemma is recorded as follows:…”