Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 24 November, 1898, to May 23, 1900

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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 24 November, 1898, to May 23, 1900: With Communications Made to the SocietyArabs understood how to give their paper a brown or yellow tint by using saffron or the sap of the sycamore. Violet and red were got from aloe-sap mixed with gum secreted by insects on the cocoa-tree. The use of red paper was a high privilege of exalted persons. Green was also got from aloes. Indigo gave them blue, which they used for paper to roll up medicines in and to write death-sentences upon.I enquired at the British Museum for the oldest Oriental ms. There, and I saw the only one for which an earlier date is claimed, an Arabic codex in much better preservation than these are, it seems to be Of the previous century, ad. 960.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.