SOME OLD MANUSCRIPTS.
To the students of old mauuscripts there is nothing astonishing about the materials upon which they were written. * The great Mohammed, the founder of the Mussulman religion, is said to havfl jotted down the brilliant passages of the Koran upon the shoulder-blades of sheep while he was a poor herder. The Iliad was lirst writtou in characters of gold upon the great gut of a dragon, the scroll being over 100 ft. in length. As far back as the time of Job, authors wrote upon sheets of lead. The great writers of the North wrote all their books upon beechwood or " bog," from which our word 41 book " is derived. At the Strozzi Palace in Rome there is a book made of marble, the leaves being of marvellous thinness. Oleanthes, the philosopher, first inscribed his immortal work on the white sides of bleached sea shells.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 82, 7 April 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)
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148SOME OLD MANUSCRIPTS. Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 82, 7 April 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)
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