Part 34 (1/2)

The sign of the ”Hand and Pen” was also used by the Fleet street es perfor master, in 1696 lived in Castle street, near St Paul's churchyard, London, at the sign of the ”Golden Pen”

The ink horn in Queen Elizabeth's ti ink, and Petticoat lane in London was the greatcenter for them Bishops Gate in the same vicinity was known as the ”ho with 1560 and for n of the Five Ink Horns was appropriately displayed by Haddon on the house in which he dwelt

Away back in the ti the pen, both quill and gold, as badges This is indicated in the acco list to be found in the Harlein library:

”King Edward the iii gave a lyon in his proper coulor, arold, and a faucon in his proper coulor and the Sonne Rising

”The Prince of Wales the ostrich fether pen and all arg

”Henry, sonne of the Erl of Derby, first Duk of Lancaster, gave the red rose uncrowned, and his ancestors gave the Fox tayle in his prop coulor and the ostrich fether ar the pen erobone sylver and azur, is the Duk of Soold ys the kinges

”The ostrych fether pen and all sylver ys the Prynces

”The ostrych fether sylver, pen ermyn is the Duke of Lancesters

”The ostrych fether sylver and pen gobone is the Duke of Soreat Goliath's spear, the sevenfold shi+eld, Scanderbeg's sword, to one who cannot wield Such weapons? Or, what ht hand of him that's void of skill?”

--cockER, A D 1650

The oldest ink (Russian) documents that exist in Russia are two treaties with the Greek eor, A D 943 Christianity, introduced into Russia at the beginning of the eleventh century by Vladiin Printing was introduced there about the middle of the sixteenth century The oldest printed book which has been discovered is a Sclavonic psalter, the date Kiev, 1551, two years after a press was established in Moscow

It is said that the skins of 300 sheep were used in every copy of the first printed Bible Hence the old saying, ”It takes a flock of sheep to write a book”

What would have been the comment in olden times, to learn that it takes almost a forest of trees to print the Sunday edition of soreat newspapers?

Wax (shoeh it hite hich was used to seal theJohn, A D 1215 In 1445 red as land, but the earliest speciust 3, 1554

Pliny enuht different kinds of papyrus paper:

1 Charter hieratica--sacred paper, used only for books on religion Frousta and charta livia

2 Charta amphitheatrica--from the place where it was fabricated

3 Charta fannia--from Fannius, the ypt This appears to have been a coarser kind

5 Charta toeniotica--from the place where made, now Damietta This was also of a less fine quality

6 Charta claudia This was an improvement of the charta hieratica, which was too fine

7 Charta emporitica A coarse paper for parcels

There was also a paper called e size

Of all these, he says, the charta claudia was the best

The ink-written rolls of papyrus were placed vertically in a cylindrical box called capsula It is very evident that a great nuht be comprised in this ithin a small space, and this may tend to explain the smallness of the roo the ancient libraries

At Mentz, in Upper Germany, is a leaf of parchment on which are fairly written twelve different kinds of handwritings in six different inks also a variety of s curiously done with a pen by one Theodore Schubiker, as born without hands and performed the ith his feet

In Rome the very plate of brass on which the laws of the ten tables are written is still to be seen

Stylographic inks should not be used upon records, most of them are aniline The absence of solid raphic pen, unfits them for records