Watermarks - Islamic manuscripts

A simple student’s mistara from
Egypt. The threads are pasted to
the cardboards. The reverse side
of the cartdboard has the exact
mirror image of this page. The
present side makes a recto page
in an Arabic manuscript, the
reverse the exactly identical
verso page. Age not determined,
but possible beginning 20th
century. Height c. 29 cm.
Source: Original in the Library of Deir al-Anba
Maqar, the Monastry of St. Macarius, Wadi
Natrun (Egypt). This mistara was shown during
the course by Father Epiphanius El-Makari, one
of the participants.