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Most were made for sale on the open market, and cities boasted(if a place, object, or organization boasts something, it has something that is very good) special souks (markets) where books were bought and sold.
这是两个主语,and表递进
The city boasts two excellent museums.
They were sold primarily near mosques 修饰
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in which cellulose pulp extracted from any of several plants
to carefully remove a substance from something which contains it
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Papermaking spread quickly to Egypt-and eventually to Sicily and Spain-but it was several centuries before paper supplanted parchment for copies of the Koran, probably because of the conservative nature of religious art and its practitioners.
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插入语可以不考虑
Papermaking spread beyond Egypt, Sicily, and Spain, but it was not widely used by artists for centuries, probably because of the conservative nature of art in those countries.
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Around the year 900, a set of rounded styles of Arabic handwriting began replacing angular scripts in copying the manuscripts of the Koran.
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