olls were kept in niches or cupboards in the walls (cf. p. 140 f.).In Christian times the roll was gradually superseded by thecodex, from which the form of the modern book is derived. InLatin this word originally signifies a pile of wooden tabletsipugillares) coated with wax, upon which accounts or… … Fig. 58. Grave relief of a surgeon. texts, and the true book was written on parchment made fromskins. This material had been used from early times in the East(e.g. by the Jews and Persians), where it was never superseded bypapyrus. It was perfected at Pergamon under the rule of theAttalid kings ;…
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