Writing material

The Pompeian baker Terentius Neo and his wife. She is holding a diptych and a stylus, he is holding a papyrus rotulus . ( Naples National Archaeological Museum )

When writing materials is known in paleography and epigraphy , the materials on which manual was written. On the other hand, substrates are materials that are printed using printing techniques .

In the oldest writing materials, wood , stone , clay and metal , the writing was scratched or stamped; Epigraphy and (with the exception of monumental inscriptions on stone or bronze) papyrology are concerned with this way of writing and its products . Writing materials used in paleography include wax , papyrus , parchment, and paper . The technical properties of these changing materials influenced the development of typeface design, along with other, partly technical and partly cultural factors. The other materials and devices used for writing, the writing materials , also had to match the respective writing material .

See also

• History of the written media

literature

• Christian Rohr : Historical auxiliary sciences. An introduction . Böhlau, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2015, ISBN 978-3-8252-3755-4 , pp. 131-137 .
• Ahasver von Brandt : tool of the historian. An introduction to the historical auxiliary sciences . 14th edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-17-014432-4 , pp. 66-70 .

Web links

Wiktionary: Writing material  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Commons : Writing materials  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Writing materials from the University of Bamberg ( Horst Enzensberger )
• Publications on writing materials in the Opac of the Regesta Imperii