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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1904 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. CLASSICAL INK AND ITS EXODUS. THE MATERIALS AND METHODS EMPLOYED IN PREPARING THE INK MSS. OF ANTIQUITY -- THE INTRODUCTION OF PARCHMENT AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PAPYRUS -- MODE OF WRITING ON PARCHMENT -- HOW SEPARATE PIECES WERE FIRST JOINED INTO BOOK FORM -- EVIDENCE OF THE CHARACTER OF WRITING UTENSILS TO BE FOUND IN ANCIENT PICTURES SOME FORMULAS BY THE YOUNGER PLINY AND HIS CONTEMPORARY DIOSCORIDES -- HOW THE GREEKS AND ROMANS KEPT THEIR PAPYRI FROM BREAKING WHEN BLACK INK BEGAN TO FALL INTO DISUSE AND ITS CAUSE -- THE ADOPTION OF THE STYLUS AND ITS ACCOMPANYING SHEETS OF LEAD, IVORY, METAL AND WOOD COATED WITH WAX -- THE EFFORTS MADE TO RESUME THE USE OF SOME INK WHICH WOULD BIND TO PARCHMENT -- WHY THERE ARE NO ORIGINAL MSS. EXTANT BELONGING TO THE TIME OF CHRIST -- THE INVENTION OF THE VITRIOLIC INKS -- HUMPHREY'S BLUNDER IN LOCATING DATES OF EARLY GREEK MSS. -- THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES OF HERCU- LANEUM AND POMPEII -- AWAKENING OF INTEREST AGAIN ABOUT THE EMPLOYMENT OF INKS -- REDISCOVERIES OF SOME OF THE MORE REMOTE ANCIENT RECIPES -- THE WRITERS IN GOLD AND SILVER -- RECORDED INSTANCES OF ILLUMINATED MSS. -- PASSAGE FROM THE BOOK OF JOB WRITTEN BY ST. JEROME -- DENIAL OF THE EMPLOYMENT OF TANNO- GALLATE OF IRON INK IN THE FOURTH CENTURY -- DESTRUCTION OF THE INSPIRED WRITINGS BY ORDER OF THE ROMAN SENATE -- THE ECLIPSE OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE AND DISMEMBERMENT OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE -- POEM ON THE THOUSAND YEARS KNOWN AS THE DARK AGES WHICH FOLLOWED. Theophrastus says that the papyrus books of the ancients were no other than roll prepared in the following manner: Two leaves o...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150799327
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 242
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150799323
  • Publisher Date: 24 Dec 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 358 gr


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