Wax Tablet with Brass Stylus, Roman and Medieval Writing Set

Wax Tablet with Brass Stylus, Roman and Medieval Writing Set

Writing tablets were not only used by pupils and students. They were also tools used by educated people. The wax tablets of well-to-do people could be made of many different materials. Expensive examples were made of ivory, for example. The wax filling of the tablets would be made from a mixture of beeswax and resin, with black being the most common colour of wax for writing. This replica is also filled with black wax. However, green, red, yellow and clear waxes are also known from archaeological finds.

It is also known that many medieval authors, such as Dante and Chaucer, used wax tablets to record their concepts and inventions for their works.

Tables of this type were common in the ancient and medieval world for keeping temporary trade or military inventories or for taking censuses and making settlements between merchants. They were also commonly used by scribes and monks, who wrote on them before transferring the intended contents to expensive papyrus or parchment.

The wax tablet, although already in use in ancient Rome, was an important technological element for medieval literacy and writing. As an originally Roman technology, it also signifies the transfer of Roman thought to medieval life and its admiration for it. Wax tablets were often used in medieval literacy instruction because the wax could be easily melted to erase the content written on it.

• Size of one wooden tablet approx. 10x17 cm
• Stylus length approx. 108 mm
• Spatula width at the end of the stylus approx. 18 mm

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