light brownish cream, and is very smooth and a little shiny. It features horizontal laid lines

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Original Recipe Text

The manuscript features 372 folios and measures 325mm (length) x 240mm (width) x 65mm (depth). The textblock is 221mm x 166mm with twenty-one lines in one column (p. 98). The paper substrate is described as light brownish cream, displaying a smooth and slightly shiny surface texture. The sheet construction is characterized by horizontal laid lines, where a span of 30mm covers twenty lines. The paper thickness is approximately 0.2mm per sheet based on the measurement of ten gathered sheets totaling 2mm (p. 98).

Evidence

"The paper is light brownish cream, and is very smooth and a little shiny. It features horizontal laid lines, twenty of which measure 30mm, and ten gathered sheets measure 2mm in thickness."

Remarks

These physical characteristics of the paper are noted by the researcher to be similar to the paper used in the 1278 Masnavī (p. 98). The manuscript is bound in quinions. It is a copy of Ibn Bībī’s history of the Rūm Seljuks, al-Awāmir al-ʿAlāʾiyya fī al-Umūr al-Alāʾiyya, commissioned by the Ilkhanid governor of Baghdad, ʿAṭā-Malik Juwaynī (p. 97). The text was likely finished in the summer of 1282 in Konya (p. 98).