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Originally Posted by slm
It sounds like you've never actually read from a scroll.
Actually, a scroll has pages (unless it is very short)--the sheets are sewn together to make a roll, but you read them one column at a time. When the next column is not visible, you unroll the scroll a bit more (and roll up the scroll to cover part of what was already read).
See, for example, this image of a scroll open for reading:
https://www.worldhistory.org/image/637/torah/
(I would include the image, but I know Mobileread has size restrictions that I don't know how to deal with.) |
Actually I have. The scroll was scrolled sideways 6-8 centimetres at a time by the person handling it. The whole white gloves and temperature and humidity controlled environment. Admittedly, it was written top to bottom and read right to left so different from the Torah which is read top to bottom and written right to left so breaking the text into columns makes sense. Us menial techs were needed for a project digitizing some scrolls to make them easier and safer to study but we left actually touching the scrolls to the professionals. We also had some bamboo/wooden stick stitched together items which dated back before the invention of paper which were equally fun to work with.
Edit: added image from Wikipedia of the bound stick book though this one is (I think) an 18th century reproduction of
The Art of War.
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