Part 36 (1/2)

”Say what you will Sir, but I knohat I know; That you beat me at the Mart, I have your hand to show; If the skin were Parch would tell you what I think”

--Comedy of Errors, iii, 1

The first book ever printed in Europe, to wit, a copy of ”Tully's Offices,” is carefully preserved in Holland

White's Latin-English Dictionary, 1872, distinguishes the words Atramentum and Sutoriu serving forink

Shoe to a shoe paper a pounce- box which contained either powdered guround cuttle-fish bones, or powdered charcoal, sand and likeit like a pepper- box on freshly writtenpaper as first employed consisted of very thin sheets and of a dark pink color, which fashi+on changed to blue in later years

Good blotting paper of the present time removes fully two thirds of fresh ink when used on HARD finished paper

Blotting paper should not be used upon records

Its use re for penetration In inks intended for copying, the e paper is especially bad

”Thou hasta Grammar School; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and contrary to the King, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper ht relates a conversation between Dr Gale and a gentlemen from the West relative to the introduction of so

Dr Gale had astonished his friend by stating-- ”will prevent the deposition of the ova of infusoria aniested that he add ”and the sporadic growths of thallogenic cryptograi”

The University of Pennsylvania clai in the world and which is on a fragment of a vase found at Nippur It is an inscription in picture writing supposed to have been made 4,500 years before Christ

Wafers were not introduced until the close of the sixteenth century

The Persians in ancient ti certain festivals and it is related that in thethe Dives (spirits) out of their houses

For this purpose the Magi wrote certain words with saffron on skins, papyrus or wood and then slued or nailed to the inside of the door, which was painted red The priest then took sand, which he spread with a long knife, whilst heit on the floor the enchantment was complete; and the Dives were supposed inant influence

Aristotle's work on the Constitution of Athens, B C 340, or probably the copy made by Tyrannio, was discovered transcribed underneath farypt in the reign of Vespasian, A D 9 to 79

In MSS written before the invention of printing and indeed for e if any, will be found on the last page with the date

”Let lawyers bawl and strain their throats, 'Tis I that must the lands convey, And strip their clients to their coats, Nay, give their very souls away!”

--DEAN SWIFT, ”On ink”

”It is certain that in their treaties with the European Greeks of Constantinople the Arabs always stipulated for the delivery of a fixed number of manuscripts Their enthusiasm for Aristotle is equally notorious; but it would be unjust to iether with the astrology and alchemy of Persia, and of the Jews of Mesopotainality”

The ”Arabic” nuin, having been brought by Arab traders froes, whereas they spread over Europe coland perhaps about the eleventh century But whether India invented them or borrowed from Greek or other traders fro implement known as the stylus was made of every conceivable material, sometimes with the precious ht be turned into formidable weapons

It ith his stylus that Caesar stabbed Casca in the arula employed some person to put to death a senator with a like instrun of Claudius women and boys were searched to ascertain whether there were any styluses in their pen cases Stabbing with the pen, therefore, is not merely a metaphorical expression

Sir Willia at the beginning of the nineteenth century, during his long residence in India spent a fortune in the collection of ancient Persic and Arabic MSS In 1807 he permitted them to be exa:

”No 1 A Koran, in the Cufi or Cufic character, said to be written by Ali, the son-in-law of Mahammed, the Arabian prophet The substance upon which this curious manuscript is written appears to be a fine kind of asses' skin or vellum, and the ink of a red, brownish colour The ends of verses are old If written by Ali, it must be nearly twelve hundred years old, but at all eventselapsed since the use of the Cufi character has given way to the Neskh, Suls, etc, etc This manuscript is still in excellent preservation”