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'''bookrolls''': books on papyrus rolls; first represention on a Greek vase, c5, but in use by Greeks at least 2000 years before that (256); columns laid out running left to right, always between ~2-3.5" wide, usually narrow; prose visually distinguishable from poetry | |||
''' | '''codex''': c2-c4, replaces bookroll | ||
''' | '''papyrus''': two-layer sheets made from papyrus pith; sheets not sold separately but glued left-right into rolls; much care given in putting together highest quality, which was often used for bookrolls | ||
'''script''': scribes payment based on quality of writing, written in "bookhand" with mostly separated letters for greater legibility; trained and apprenticed scribes; laid out ''scriptio continua'' (no spaces between words), with less elaborated punctuation, although markings are still evident at the end of sentences and major divisions in the text | |||
*''paragraphos'': horizontal line at left edge of column, marks major divisions | |||
*''dicolon'': like colon; marks changes of speaker in dialogue or drama | |||
''' | '''Maas's law''': discovered by Paul Maas; bookrolls exhibit a forward tilt in the column, so that lines move slightly to the left as they go down; is a regular and deliberate feature (as we know from ruling lines) in Roman era, especially c2 and c3 | ||
Revision as of 13:07, 7 September 2010
bookrolls: books on papyrus rolls; first represention on a Greek vase, c5, but in use by Greeks at least 2000 years before that (256); columns laid out running left to right, always between ~2-3.5" wide, usually narrow; prose visually distinguishable from poetry
codex: c2-c4, replaces bookroll
papyrus: two-layer sheets made from papyrus pith; sheets not sold separately but glued left-right into rolls; much care given in putting together highest quality, which was often used for bookrolls
script: scribes payment based on quality of writing, written in "bookhand" with mostly separated letters for greater legibility; trained and apprenticed scribes; laid out scriptio continua (no spaces between words), with less elaborated punctuation, although markings are still evident at the end of sentences and major divisions in the text
- paragraphos: horizontal line at left edge of column, marks major divisions
- dicolon: like colon; marks changes of speaker in dialogue or drama
Maas's law: discovered by Paul Maas; bookrolls exhibit a forward tilt in the column, so that lines move slightly to the left as they go down; is a regular and deliberate feature (as we know from ruling lines) in Roman era, especially c2 and c3