ten sheets of paper glued together

Evidence

"The ten sheets of paper that form the current scroll vary in dimension. The first four sheets and the sixth sheet measure 72.6–73.6 cm wide. The other sheets average half that width, except the tenth sheet which is only 26.3 cm wide."

Remarks

The manuscript P2610 is a paper scroll composed of ten sheets of paper glued together (p. 336). It is described as a rarity among Dunhuang miscellanies for having occult texts on both the recto and verso of the paper scroll, seemingly in the same hand (p. 335). The sheets vary significantly in dimension: the first four and the sixth sheets are 72.6–73.6 cm wide, whereas other sheets average half that width, and the tenth sheet is notably narrower at 26.3 cm (p. 336). The construction reflects a dynamic production process; for instance, an eighth sheet was inserted into the scroll by the copyist to correct and recopy a wind divination section that had been erroneously compressed into the margins of the ninth sheet (p. 336).