Made in Arabic
ream
الرِّزْمة
A Qur'an leaf written on paper in the eastern Islamic lands, in the slanting "new style" script then coming into fashion for Qur'ans. Paper was an industry of the Islamic world long before Europe made it, and it was sold in bundles: Arabic rizma. Through al-Andalus the word became Spanish resma and Old French rayme, and English ream, still the name of a pack of 500 sheets.
- Instrument
- a leaf from a Qur'an written on paper, eastern Islamic lands, second half of the 10th century
- Written on it in Arabic
- In its margin, in red and green ink, are notes on the readers of the Qur'an, and gold roundels mark the verses.
The path between languagesrizma → razma → raima, resma → rayme → ream
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ملكٌ عامّ
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