For Nick - was: VMs: Folio and Quire numbers

["Jeff" <jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Historian Anders Winroth and wax tablets
http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/03_11/faces.html

http://www.ukans.edu/~bookhist/medbook1.html Discusssion of the timeline of
use.

http://www.ecomuseum.dk/english/oem/script_and_the_written_word.htm

Jeff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Pelling" <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 01 April 2004 23:29
Subject: Re: VMs: Folio and Quire numbers


> Hi Jeff,
>
> At 22:42 01/04/2004 +0100, Jeff Haley wrote:
> >Some questions. Would it only have been the church or government types
> >that used the wax tablets? Have you tried to see if any collectors buy
> >such things at auction if they still exist anywhere? Do you have any idea
> >of which individuals used this method?
>
> Many museums have wax tablets (though rarely on show) - most of the time
it
> seems as though I'm the only person who thinks that late-medieval /
> early-modern wax tablets are of any interest. AFAICT there are few (or
> less) catalogues of late medieval / early modern wax tablet holdings, with
> almost all the interest focused specifically on Roman ones.
>
> Despite that, wax tablets were in active use for over a millennium, in all
> walks of life - but especially in schools, universities, courts, etc.
>
> BTW, I also don't think there is a single private wax tablet collector out
> there, though I'd be delighted to be proved wrong! :-)
>
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
>
>
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