The History of Ink, Including Its Etymology, Chemistry, and BibliographyDavids, Thaddeus
History
The History of Ink, Including Its Etymology, Chemistry, and Bibliography
Davids, Thaddeus
Ink
“_Ego Sebbi Rex East Sax(onum) pro—confirmatione Subscripsi._”
No. 25.—Part of a Charter of Alfred the Great, A.D. 800.
No. 26.—From a Charter of Edward the Confessor, A.D. 1045.
No. 27.—From a Deed of the reign of Edward I.
No. 28.—From a Deed of William the Conqueror.
No. 29.—From a Deed of the reign of Edward III.
_Edwardus Dei gratia Rex Anglias Dominus Hiberniæ, Dux Aquitaniæ, &c._
No. 30.—From the Will of William Mikelfeld, Nov. 7, 1439.
No. 31.—From a Deed of the reign of Edward IV.
No. 32.—From a Grant by William Wallace.
No. 33.—From a Deed of Richard III.
No. 34.—From a Deed of the reign of John.
No. 35.—Autograph of Lord Macaulay.
No. 36.—From a Deed of Henry VII.
No. 37.—From an English translation of the works of Chauliac, A.D. 1400.
No. 38.—From a Deed of Henry VIII.
No. 39.—From a MS. in the rounded hand of Italy, 15th century.
No. 40.—Letter from Columbus to the Viceroy of Castile, 15th century.
No. 41.—Letter of Anne of Brittany, 1514.
No. 42.—Signature of “Bayard,” the Chevalier.
No. 43.—Letter from Charles V. to Francis I.
No. 44.—Letter from Calvin, 1559.
No. 45.—Letter of the Earl of Essex, 1567.
No. 46.—Letter of Copernicus, 1473.
No. 47.—William H. Prescott.
No. 48.—Letter of Charles the XII of Sweden.
No. 49.—Rosseau, 1757.
No. 50.—Letter of Erasmus, 1476.
No. 51.—Letter of Queen Elizabeth to Henry IV of France.
No. 52.—Christina of Sweden, 1626.
No. 53.—Charles I. to his sister.
No. 54.—Oliver Cromwell, 1643.
No. 55.—Duke of Marlborough, June, 1706.
No. 56.—The Empress Catherine II. of Russia, July, 1773.
No. 57.—Washington, 6th Sept. 1788.
No. 58.—Louis XVI, June 30, 1773.
No. 59.—Robespierre.
No. 60.—Napoleon to Soult.
No. 61.—Wellington, June 19, 1815.
No. 62.—Lord Byron, Nov. 4, 1821.
No. 63.—Voltaire, July 29, 1757.
No. 64.—Edmund Burke.
No. 65.—William Pitt, March 27, 1803.
No. 66.—Wellington, April 21, 1834.
The colored engraving is an illustration of the picture writing of the
Mexicans, from Lord Kingsborough’s great work. The blue border
represents a series of years, distinguished by the dots. The compartment
with five dots representing the fifth year of the reign, that with ten
the tenth, and so on. The pictures of the acts of the Prince being
connected with each special year by means of a connecting line. The
additional symbols have different significations—that of the flower
signifying a calamitous year, &c. In this plate King Acamapich is
represented in the first and sixth year of his reign; at the top of the
page are warlike instruments, signifying his preparation for war; the
figures below, on the right, are the four cities—Quahnahuac, Mezquic,
Cuitlhuac and Xochimilco—represented by descriptive symbols. The four
heads on the left are those of the respective kings or chiefs of these
cities, beheaded by Acamapich, each distinguished by the iconographic
symbol by which his name was expressed in this system of writing.
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