VMs: Re: Bacon on wax tablets...

["Rafal T. Prinke" <rafalp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nick Pelling wrote:

> Regardless, it seems likely that - even in Bacon's time - wax tablets were
> still in use, and their general properties well-known enough to be useful
> as a metaphor.

They were in common use still in the 17th c. The largest extant
collection of 128 original wax tablets from mid-14th to mid-16th c.
is housed in the State Archive in Torun, Poland. Have a look at:

     http://www.archiwa.gov.pl/memo/tabliczk.html

The texts are records of municipal taxes of Torun/Thorn (if your
ancestors
lived there and didn't pay their taxes - beware!).

Another example from the State Archive in Gdansk/Danzig can be seen at:

    http://www.ap.gdansk.pl/zbiory/akta.php?akta=gdansk

And two bibliographic items:

G. NAWROLSKA, J. TANDECKI, "Sredniowieczne tabliczki woskowe zu Starego
Miasta Elblaga" [Medieval wax tablets from Elblag/Elbig Old Town],
Archaeologia Elbingensis, vol. 2, Gdansk 1997, Pracownia Konserwacji
Zabytków, p. 131-144

T. Jasinski, Tabliczki woskowe w kancelariach miast Pomorza
Nadwislanskiego [Wax tablets in the chanceries of Vistulan Pomerania],
Poznan, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, 1991



Best regards,

Rafal