Describe the process of preparing the manuscript in the Mughal court.
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Process of manuscript production in the Mughal court included the following:
(a)Paper-maker's responsibility was to prepare the folios of the manuscript.
(b)Skill writer, i.e. scribes or calligrapher copied the texts.
(c)The book binders gathered the folio and gave it to the original shape of a book.
All the Mughal books were manuscripts. In other words, they were handwritten. The centre where the work of manuscript production was taken was known as the imperial kitabkhana. This Kitabkhana was like a library. It was a scriptorium. In other words, it was a place where the emperor kept his collection of manuscripts and produced new manuscripts.A large number of people were involved in the creation of manuscript. They included the following:
(i) Paper makers who prepared the folios of the manuscript.
(ii) Scribes or calligraphers who copied the texts.
(iii) Guilders who illuminated the pages of the manuscript.
(iv) Painters who illustrated scenes from the text.
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