كليدواژه :
كتاب پردازي , انواع كاغذ , كاغذ , نسخه شناسي , نسخ خطي
چكيده لاتين :
As far as the art of eodieology (^L^jl*_-j) is concerned, identifying the
paper used in a manuscript is a part of its history. The paper also shows the date of the manuscriptʹs embellishing and its bookbinding occurred in the geographical region where the manuscript is written. That is why the Eastern catalogue writers, particularly in Iran, try to identify the kind of paper, when speaking of its codicology. After invention and production of paper, at first the Chinese, then the Muslims and the Persians rapidly substitute other kind of sheets ( i.e. Papyrus and animal skin) with the paper. Consequently, production of various kinds of paper was introduced in the different cities of Iran and other Islamic countries.
When describing the sheets used in the manuscripts, the contemporary catalogue writers employ general terms which arc rather experimental. On the other hand, there are just limited and partial descriptions on the characteristics of these papers in the old sources. This means that the old sources provide no other information by which we would describe the samples of papers.
Although the catalogue writers rely on their experimental knowledge in distinguishing the kind of paper, it is necessary to write down these sensory experiments, so that it would partially produce the history of paleography and to show the historical course of paper making on one hand, and to provide information for the chemists and scientists in the laboratories to study and analyze various kind of papers, on the other hand, which would finally leads to determine the scientific principles and characteristics of various kinds of papers.
The present article examines and explains the various kinds of papers commonly used in the manuscripts.
