TERMINOLOGY

for the Conservation AND DESCRIPTION of Islamic Manuscripts

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The Manuscript Codex * Materials

DLUWANG
A sheet of support material in which the inner bark of a paper mulberry tree is beaten to cause the bark fibers to become enmeshed and to make the surface of the sheet flat and smooth.  This support is found in manuscripts from Java and Madura in Indonesia.
UBL OR. 2149

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