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Originally Posted by GeoffC
good point . so I went looking and discovered this ....
A scroll is usually divided up into pages, which are sometimes separate sheets of papyrus or parchment glued together at the edges. It still doesn't explain why they chose to join them side by side, rather than one side only as in a book - unless that revelation came later - perhaps it was originally thought a scroll on two small posts was easier to handle and also to store ...  |
Good info - thanks.
It might have been easier to store and handle but it certainly didn't do anything for maintaining the condition of the material. Of course after several thousand years even flat books would have deteriorated.