r. Marvin R., 38. Walsh, Professor, 151, 152, 159. World Almanac, 142. Wright, Professor George F., 40, 41, 52, 53. Wycliffe, John, 29, 30. Young, Professor, 98, 99. Babylonia—inscribed temple walls, 100;
Babylonian—expedition, 134;
- explorations at Nippur, 134, 135;
- "deluge" tablet, 134, 135.
Benedictines—founding of Order, 150, 155;
- civilizing and beneficent influences of, 162, 164.
Bible—a divine-human book, 40–45;
- for man, 18, 40;
- collective volume, 140;
- versions, 38, 39;
- preËminent MSS of, 64, 65;
- lost autographs, 44;
- Septuagint Version, 141;
- decorated and embellished copies, 52–54, 159;
- cost of making, 29–32;
- first printed ("Mazarin"), 14, 15;
- Revised N. T., 28;
- numerous manuscripts of, 37–39;
- American Bible Society, 32;
- permanency of, 18;
- chapters and verses, 122, 125.
Book—definition of, 19, 20;
- evolution, 20, 21;
- form of ancient, 63;
- change from "roll" to "leaf" form, 63–64, 69;
- "diptych," "triptych," "polyptych," 82;
- "Book of the Dead," 84, 85, 93;
- size of roll-book, 68, 69, 139, 140.
Books—earliest, 21, 22, 139. "Hieratic"—writing, defined, 92;
- distinguished from "demotic," 70, 98.
Hieroglyphic—writing, earliest mode of recording ideas, 20, 21, 28, 70, 91–99;
- universal, 92, 107;
- one of the tri-lingual inscriptions, 98;
- two classes of, 94–97;
- number of, 97.
Homer—writings of long un-recorded, 24;
"Ideographic"—writing, defined, 94, 95;
- clumsy and imperfect, 97, 98;
- limitations of, illustrated, 97, 98;
- key to decipherment, 98, 99;
- Cretan undeciphered, 107, 108.
"India"—paper, quality, 76, 77;
- tests of strength and durability, 77;
- remarkable productions on, 76, 77;
- ink, 86.
Inks—importance and necessity of good, 47, 57, 83;
- composition of ancient, 83, 84;
- lost art, 86;
- various kinds and colors, 84, 85, 86;
- uses of colored, 85;
- millenniums-old, 84;
- tests of genuineness of written documents, 57;
- printers', 14;
- "royal," 86;
- "India," 86.
"Interrogation" (?)—punctuation mark, 124.
Inventions—outgrowth of necessity, 40, 60, 62;
- in printing, 11;
- in paper, 72;
- in the alphabet, 91, 92, 106, 107;
- improvement and progress in, 16, 17, 62, 63;
- in punctuation, 120, 121, 123, 125;
- improvement in materials and arrangement of books, 75, 76;
- "India" paper, 76, 77;
- tablets of various kinds, 78–81, 101;
- protected tablets, 81, 82 (see Tablets).
Manutius—and system of punctuation, 125.
"Mazarin"—Bible, first printed book, 14;
Memory—phenomenal and reliable, 24–27.
>168, 169. Revelation—progressive, 41, 42;
- materials embodying, subject to exposure, 42–44.
Revised Version—feat of N. T. publication, 28;
Roll-book—earliest form in leather and papyrus, 59, 61, 68, 69;
Roman alphabet—ascendancy of and reasons for, 114, 115, 116.
Rosetta Stone—referred to, 70, 79;
- discovery of, 79, 94, 98;
- described, 98, 99;
- tri-lingual inscription on, 70, 98, 99;
- key to decipherment, 99;
- and Egyptian literature, 79, 99.
Schools—of abbeys and monasteries, 151, 156, 157, 163, 164;
Scribes—professional, 127;
- monks, 128, 157–159, 163, 164;
- dignitaries and princes, 128;
- slaves, 129, 130;
- persons of sedentary habits, 129;
- women, 128;
- dictation to by reader, 157, 158;
- beauty of work, 52–54, 159;
- wages of, 29–32;
- employed in libraries, 135, 138, 140, 145, 147.
"Scriptorium"—of monasteries, 157, 158, 165.
"Semicolon"—punctuation mark, 124.
"Septuagint"—what and for whom, 141;
- probable fate of original, 141;
- compared with, 116, 117;
- style of writing a verisimilitude of genuineness, 117–119;
- determining age of composition, 118, 119;
- compared and contrasted with printing, 27–32, 138.
Young (Dr.)—labors in deciphering the Rosetta Stone and the Egyptian hieroglyphics, 98, 99.
"Zero"—the cipher completing the system of notation, 126;
- when and by whom added, 126.
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