sizing of the paper
Iran
10th Century
Source: Sara Fani, "The Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making," in Traces of Ink, ed. Lucia Raggetti (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 105-122.
Recipe Details
Preparation Steps
Includes procedures for the sizing of paper, creating palimpsests (ṭirs), and the antiquing of parchment (p. 110).
Original Recipe Text
Includes procedures for the sizing of paper, creating palimpsests (ṭirs), and the antiquing of parchment (p. 110).
Evidence
"The work also includes recipes for treatments related to writing supports, such as the sizing of the paper and the reuse (as ṭirs, ‘palimpsest’) or antiquing of parchment (p. 110)."
Remarks
Zīnat al-kataba is ascribed to Abū Bakr Muḥammad b. Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī (d. 925). The work is known through a single witness found in the Dār al-Kutub, Cairo (p. 109).
Scientific Analysis
Analytical Techniques
philological analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
paper
Paper Typesizing of the paper
RegionIran
Approx. Year950
Source Information
AuthorSara Fani, "The Literary Dimension and Life of Arabic Treatises on Ink Making," in Traces of Ink, ed. Lucia Raggetti
CollectionZīnat al-kataba
Language
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