an Ancient Paper. 
ii5 
It is interesting to note also, that Karabacek, in his preface 
to the descriptive catalogue of the Archduke Rainer’s Collec- 
tion of MSS. 1 , gives reasons for concluding that the Arabs 
learnt the art of paper-making from plant-fibres, from the 
Chinese, about A. D. 751. 
We are not, therefore, guilty of any anachronism in 
assuming that, by the year 1038 — the date which has been 
assigned to this paper — the process of manufacturing paper 
from the fibres of the Flax-plant was both known and 
employed. 
1 Fiihrer durch die Ausstellung Papyrus des Herzog Rainer, 1892, Th. I, 
pp. xvii-xxiv. 
