pale olive color

Evidence

"A unique copy of a treatise on rhetoric dated 1 Rabi' I 677 (23 July 1278) in the Chester Beatty Library is copied on folios of a pale olive color."

Remarks

The author notes that this pale olive paper is rare, if not unique, among manuscripts of this period (p. 25). The manuscript is a copy of a treatise on rhetoric. Blair emphasizes that such colored supports were readily available by this time, marking a shift toward more complex manuscript decoration in the Eastern Islamic lands (p. 25).