This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... or of brass. For the harder material the pen was a graving-tool (Exod. xxxil. 4); for the waxen tablets it was a pointed style (.lob xix. 24). sometimes made of iron (Jer. xvii. 1); for parchment it was a reed (3 John 13). Paper was unknown till later times, when a kind of paper made out of the Egyptian papyrus came ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 Excerpt: ... or of brass. For the harder material the pen was a graving-tool (Exod. xxxil. 4); for the waxen tablets it was a pointed style (.lob xix. 24). sometimes made of iron (Jer. xvii. 1); for parchment it was a reed (3 John 13). Paper was unknown till later times, when a kind of paper made out of the Egyptian papyrus came into use: such paper is mentioned once in the Bible (2 John 12). Ink was required only in writing upon parchment; it was made of lamp-black dissolved in gall-juice. The inkstand was made of brass, and consisted of a long tube for the pen, with a small bulb at the top for the ink, with a tight lid, and was called an " inkhern," and was carried in the girdle (Ezek. ix. 2, 3); such ink-herns are still used in the East. In writing, the penman began at the right hand, and wrote toward the left. There was no script hand; but the writer was obliged to use the common square disconnected letters, just as a child prints. When the writing was completed, if it was on waxen tablets and there were several of them, they were fastened together at one edge, and then formed a book, tomoth; whence our tomo. If the writing was on parchment, and there was much of it, the parchment was prepared in long strips, the two ends being attached to wooden rollers and constituting the sides, and was then written upon in narrow columns parallel with the rollers; it was then rolled up on the rollers, and was called a roll (Jer. xxxvi. 14) or a scroll (Isa. xxxiv. 4); it was fastened by a string tied around it; and when it was sealed, the ends of the string were fastened with wax (Dan. xii. 4). The roll was usually written on one side only, it was something extraordinary when it was otherwise (Ezek. ii. 10; Rev. v. 1). When closed, the roll was sometimes slipped into ...
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