SC - qataif

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/29/00 8:17:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:

<< A lot of the homemade
 papers that I have seen many paper-makers produce
 don't come anywhere near as thin as modern papers or
 modern filo dough. >>

Papyrus can be pretty thin or at least thinner than most hand made papers. I 
have also seen rice papers made by hand that are very thin. I guess the 
question is, has anyone on the list seen actual manuscript pages from the mid 
east dating from the 13rh century and, if so, how thin were they?

Ras
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