Islamic paper

Ingredients

laminated paper leaves

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

The textblocks of the surveyed manuscripts are composed of Islamic paper, which the author describes as soft and almost cloth-like in older volumes (p. 15). A distinctive feature of these bindings is that the boards are not made of wood or heavy materials but are constructed from laminated paper leaves (p. 15).

Evidence

"The Islamic paper of the older volumes is soft, sometimes almost cloth-like. ... The covers, flush with the edges of the textblock, with boards not made of wood or other heavy material but consisting of laminated paper leaves, are light and sometimes even a little limp"

Remarks

The author emphasizes the unique tactility of the Islamic manuscripts in the Leiden collection, noting the paper is soft and cloth-like compared to Western manuscripts (p. 15). The boards made of laminated paper leaves result in light, occasionally limp structures that form a unique unity with the textblock (p. 15). The corpus for these observations is the Leiden Oriental Collection, which includes manuscripts from the Maghreb, Levant, and Istanbul (p. 20).