TERMINOLOGY

FOR THE CONSERVATION AND DESCRIPTION OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS

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    • Types of Manuscripts
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The Manuscript * Types of Manuscripts

MANUSCRIPT
Any handwritten material on a flexible support such as paper, parchment or papyrus. Although this material in conventional book form can be differentiated from such material on single sheets, the technical term for the book form, manuscript codex, is usually shortened simply to manuscript. Therefore much of the terminology used to describe a manuscript actually refers only to the book.
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