Show PAPYRUS BOOKS WERE ROLLS BOLLS modern term volume has been found to have had its origin in these cylindrical works A in forming papyrus into books it was nas customary among the ancients to use a long sheet or web of it and roll it upon a stick as Is the custom in respect to maps at the present day sas the detroit news the writing was in columns each of formed a sort of f page e the reader holding the ends off ot the the roll in his two hands and reading at the part alich was open between 9 them As he advanced he continually unrolled on one side and rolled up on 4 the other the term volume used in respect to modern books had its origin in this ancient practice of writing upon long rolls the long sheet was rolled upon a u wooden billet witch wt ich gave the volume a certain firmness and solidity and at af bordea forded it great protection the ends of tl if e roller projected be 3 ond tie it e edges of the sheet an I 1 were terminated in knobs or bosses which guarded in some measure tl e edges of the papyrus or rolls of patel ment which were often made in the same manner the whole volume was also in a parchment case on the outside of which the title of the work was conspicuously recorded |