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 HERCULANEUM
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