paper

Egypt
11th Century
Source: Lev, E. (2013). Mediators between Theoretical and Practical Medieval Knowledge: Medical Notebooks from the Cairo Genizah and their Significance. Medical History, 57(4), 487-515.
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Evidence

"The text is written on both sides of the paper and occasionally on bi-folium; All fragments that are pages of the same book are of the same size."

Remarks

The paper discusses a vast collection of approximately 1800 medical documents extracted from the Taylor–Schechter (T–S) Genizah Collection at Cambridge University Library. These include notebooks, prescriptions, and books. Page 494 specifies that medical books are typically written on both sides of the paper, often on bi-folia, and maintain consistent page sizes within the same work. Fragment T–S K14.32 (p. 505) is specifically described as a single leaf on paper measuring 16.3 x 11.1 cm. The manuscripts date primarily from the eleventh to the thirteenth century (p. 490), with some fragments like T-S K14.32 dating to the fifteenth-sixteenth century (p. 505).

Scientific Analysis
Certainty Level
Inferred
Instrumentally Verified
Not Verified
Metadata
Material Type
paper
Paper Typepaper
RegionEgypt
Approx. Year1050
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