Style Writing
Sometimes incorrectly called pen , the style is a small cylindrical instrument of bone , of iron or other hard material, along 8 to 15 centimeters, and a few millimeters in diameter, one end is tapered and pointed, and another fairly strong and flat.
Summary |
The pointed end is used to write, either by burning the wax cast on a wax tablet , or another medium.
The flared end is used to erase what is written on a wax tablet by smoothing the wax, or to spread a product that will expose the incision.
In the West, its use is very old. It was cited in the Bible ( Vulgate 2R 21.13) "and delebo Jerusalem, sicut solent Deleris Tabulae: Delens and vertam and Ducam crebrius super faciem ejus Stylum"
"I will wipe Jerusalem as one erases what is written on the tablets, I often pass and repass over style, so that nothing remains "( French translation of the Bible Fillion ).
The Romans have used a lot of style with wax tablets, and many performances have shown, on murals.
The Slavic peoples of the north were used for writing on birch bark ;, bearing the name pisalo
Its use in Europe, related to the wax tablet or birch bark, has become scarce from the fifteenth century when the paper was slowly disappearing this type of writing support, she continued, however, until the nineteenth century.
He is reborn in the late twentieth century , as the pen (computer) to write on the screen PDAs.
In the East, particularly in India 's south and Ceylon , the style is used for writing on bamboo or leaves of palm. The flat side (wider than in the Roman style) is used to spread the black smoke or ash on the support, which, after cleaning, allow to reveal the characters engraved.
Linguistics
- "In the antiquity , style (*) denotes the punch of iron or bone that was used to write on the wax , and the other end, flat, allowed to erase what was written. There is something moving, centuries later, to recognize in the ancestor of this object pen. But in those days, by sliding metonymic of the instrument to its result, the style is the way of writing, the turn of the phrase. Cicero uses it in this figurative sense in the first century BC.
- Camille Laurens , Woven per mile from 19/12 / 2005 , Editions POL.
- (*) Or stile.
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