Reckoning boards;Tallies;Accounting machines -- History
How could our ancestors do accounting while they were still illiterate and had no paper? The answer is that they used the tally and the checkerboard. In medieval Europe, the tally was normally a short stick on which notches were cut to represent...
"This fragment contains quotations from Lucilius, Persius, Vergil, Plautus, Naevius, Ennius, Livy, and Ovid…Contain part of Priscian’s Institutes, inscribed about A.D. 1050, in the time of William the Conqueror. The handwriting is a fine...
"Written in a small Carolingian script, about the latter half of the 10th century. Contains citations from Livy, Virgil, and Homer, the last being given in Greek uncials."
"...written in a bold Carolingian minuscule during the second half of the 10th century, probably in Germany. The right margin has been cut away, with a loss of text. This fragment contains quotations from Vergil, Horace, Lucanus, Lucilius, and...
"Eight leaves upon vellum, 8 vo. (250:180 mM.), single column with 24 lines to the page, early Gothic script, very broad marginal commentary occasionally running into the textual column in smaller script, red and blue initials with pen-flourishes,...
"Priscian was the great 5th century Roman grammarian, who lived in Constantinople. In his Institutes he preserved many fragments from classical authors which otherwise would have been lost. One leaf on vellum, 4to (195: 170 mM.), 25 lines to the...
"New Testament with glosses. Text in center panel about 18 lines of well written revived Carolingian script, with commentaries and glosses added at a slightly later date. Glosses by Beda, Jerome, and Gregory. Leaves stained, ink brownish tint."
