OCR Text |
Show EARL WRITER 9 Aside from these technical books there were numerous work (hmuglmu[ the cighteenth century that dealt with carly writin appliances and the history of the use of linen and cotton as paper mz\kmg materials. In 1762 Gerard Meerman (1722 hi book® offered a premium of twenty-five ducats for theLllscovcr of the d.nc when linen paper was first fabricated.F part < specimens were sent to him which were :uppux: tob carly linen paper, but his researches established no definite conclusion regarding the origin of linen as a material for paper. In 176 Mecrman issued his second compilation® on the origin of line paper. In 1788 Johann Georg Schwandtner® wrote his observations relating to the earlies had up to that tim been discnvcrcxl. The sheet of paper in question had been foun among the charters of the ancient Monastery of Gss in Uppe Stiria,andwas thought o date from aboutthe year 1243. Schwandt Wehrs* (1750-1818), which remains to this day one of the greates works on the history of carly writing materials, mdudmg pepye parchment, and paper, that has ever been compiled ! year 1790 a supplement to this book was written by th s an published in Hanover. In 1784-180x the two volume work o 1 Syndici Roterodamensis Admonito de charae noseacs, s linca, origne Roterdam 1762 dcm i o o d valgais seu linea orignc. Hagae.Comitum, 17 1 specimina acute su e s cindi i ditorum judicio exponit Jotnnes Georgius Schwandnceus, Vindobonse, 138 Sare {tem i e el v und sonsigen Schribmateralcn. Halle 1780, 12 Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |