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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XXII. LITERATURE AND ARTS. Books and Writings.?The books of the Sinhalese are made of palmyra or talipat leaves, called olas. A number being cut the same length and placed over each other, with a piece of thin wood or ivory above and below for covers, a string runs through a hole made in the covers and all the leaves at each end, which are thus strung together, something bike wooden window-blinds. These books are of various lengths and thickness, but the breadth of all is about the same: some of the larger ones are nearly three feet long, two and a half inches broad, and contain many hundred leaves, with eight or nine lines of writing on each. The best kinds are said to last for more than 500 years. Their preservation for so long a period being attributed to the aromatic quality of the dumula resin used for making the black varnish rubbed into the marks made by the style employed to trace the letters on the leaves. Tnlipat leaves are prepared for writing by boiling or steeping in hot water or milk, after which they are dried, pressed, and smoothed with a piece of wood having a sharp edge; a considerable amount of care is bestowed in preparing the finer kinds, which are highly polished. Olas are also used for keeping accounts by shopkeepers in Ceylon, India, and Burmah. When rolled up and secured with wax they were formerly sent through the post-office as letters. Pliny (xiii. 21) remarks that the most ancient way of writing was on palm leaves, hence the term folium, or leaf, applied to books; and Prescott, in his History of South America, says, the Mexicans, before thearrival of the Spaniards, used the leaves of the aloe for writing on, made into books shut up like a fan. Contracts and legal documents are often engraved on silver, ivory, or copper t...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217962766
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 154
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217962769
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 286 gr


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