Irano-Sinica— Paper 559 



Persian-Arabic word. There * no rea ^ ^^ ^ 



paper was adopted by the Arabs ana r know 



designation of it should had from the same ^* r f 

 o£ a foreign language that was wdhng ^ffj^ Greek . Latin 

 any designation for paper, uur w ° <. cotton " being ultimately 



W«; R^ian *-rS ° ngin ^ y t ? The Tibetans learned the tech- 

 Lceable to Middle P ^' a " ^^f b Xv e a word of their own 

 niqueof paper-makmg from th ^Chme e but hav ^ ^ 



srr&sr firsts - «« ^ 5- rs 



§g£SSS3S3g|§ 



X a P T,s). As statea, me Kumandu, 



Turkish language: "'flcS TarancC and Kazan tego.. The 



origin ot rn significance "tree-bark, 



^fld not rep't htre the oft-told story of how the manufacture of 

 l neeo. nou p Q amar kand by Chinese captives in a.d. 751. 



Itls well known that the Chinese were the ongmators of \ 



money 



invention of l^^.^tJl expect to come back to this problem on 

 and indeed was the work of Ts ^ Lun I ^ q{ Karabacek , Wiesner, and 



another occasion. With ^ r f P ect ^ ™ r ^ chine conclusions of these scholars are 

 Hoernle, I am not convinced ^^2°^ less theorizing), especially 

 all justified. We are in need c \™™™f^ ^mus acC0 unts of many sorts of 

 of ancient papers made in China J here ^^ should be cloS ely studied, 

 naoer hitherto unnoticed, in Chinese recorub, w 111 



^According to Masudi (B. pe M~ L« P-nes d or £LH, J-Jj 

 see also E. Drouin, Memoire sur les Huns Ephthahtes, p. 53 V v 



Museon, 1895). 



