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They didn’t have paper. They’d scribble in a wax tablet using a stylus. Evidently sometimes they’d use the stylus to scribble in the margins on parchment or vel
by junofan 4y ago
They didn’t have paper. They’d scribble in a wax tablet using a stylus. Evidently sometimes they’d use the stylus to scribble in the margins on parchment or vellum.
- raldi 4y ago> Pretty much like in modern time, evidence of paper by the end of the fourteenth century could be found everywhere: in correspondence, medical recipes, household uses, book production, charms. It was used for the quotidian and the extraordinary http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2020/10/paper-in-medieval-england-from-pulp-to-fictions/ http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2020/10/paper-in-medieval-engla...
- junofan 4y agoThat was 700 years ago, not 1300.
- raldi 4y agoThe book is from 1300 years ago; we don't know when the drawings were done. Even if they were done around the time of the creation of the book, clearly the existence of the book itself demonstrates the existence of paper in that part of the world at that time.
- junofan 4y agoThe book is a codex written on parchment, not paper. TFA references a stylus.
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