Wax tablet notebook with inscribed Latin textLWL/S. Brentführer
Wax tablet notebook with inscribed Latin textLWL/S. Brentführer
I bet you’re reading this story on your phone. Don’t drop it.
“Here I sit, broken hearted...”
It’s my grocery list. I was more concerned about my cell phone. It dropped in a d before I could retrieve it the self flushed thingy sucked it away.
It really is amazing how the more things change the more they stay the same.
Medieval multitasking gone wrong.
Page 6: "I guess I shouldn't have eaten that mutton that was on the counter for three days..."
“…10 wooden tablet pages coated in wax, onto which the object’s owner etched writing using a metal or bone stylus”
Wow, the thing people had to do before mass produced paper was invented!
"Those who write in bathroom stalls,
Roll their Scheiße in little balls,
Those who read those words of wit,
Eat those little balls of Scheiße
Apparently there were originally 11 pages, but poor Hans was short on leaves and moss that day and in the ensuing chaos…
ran out of paper to wipe with
so I brought a useless notebook to use the pages thereof
whoops! dropped my notebook
I wonder if hundreds of years from now they will spend millions of dollars to analyse my useless notebook
“Who does Number Two work for?”
I cannot read it, though I can pick out a few words like quod, est, possibly quadrantem, all abbreviations I recognise.
Most of it has been blotted out and it seems to me, please correct me anyone, that the lines in the middle of the lower tablet were current when he dropped it.
To get a clean slate, a tabula rasa, one would melt the wax.
Latin paleography is a tough subject. Latin cursive?? Whoah.
This type of tablet is used in a scene of the movie “Ben Hur”,
The wager. In this scene, Massala accepts the wager by pressing his signet ring into the wax. To collect his winnings the Sheik must produce the tablet as proof.
Some deals could be done on a clay tablet and the clay baked for permanence.
https://youtu.be/Fqxv7C9uTao
The article says 3”x4”, but that is when it is open. Closed it is 2”x3”. A very handy size.
I am sure the owner was unhappy at losing it.
Papermaking was migrating to Germany just after the time this notebook was lost.
I’m pretty sure that top line says “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine”.
(Surprised it took this many comments for someone to say it).
Was it a data dump?
The Medieval equivalent of dropping your iPhone in the loo?
First line translated, “ there once was a woman from Munich...”
