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The Beauty of Palm Leaf Manuscripts
- gwern 12y agoWould have been nice if there were some photos of a palm leaf manuscript in use or how the text is laid out. I can sort of guess, but it spends all its time talking about the cases and paintings...
- benbreen 12y agoI found a pretty good overview here: http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/resources/dt-july-2009/Palm.pdf http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/resources/dt-july-2009/Palm.pdf
- mdturnerphys 12y agoI was a little surprised there is no mention of the Burmese script. The distinctive shape of Burmese (limited number of straight lines) is due to palm leaves being the standard medium on which it was written. Straight lines are more likely to split the leaves.