. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . e the alphabets of therest of Europe and of America. Weber andBrinsep have shown that the ancient San-scrit alphabet probably came from the Phoe-nician, and from the Sanscrit are derivedthe alphabets of India, Burmah, Thibet, andJava. The old Persian is also shown bySpiegel to have a similar origin ; and Klap-roth has proved that the Mongolian, Tun-gusiau, and Manchu alphabets are from thePhoenician, through the Syria
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . e the alphabets of therest of Europe and of America. Weber andBrinsep have shown that the ancient San-scrit alphabet probably came from the Phoe-nician, and from the Sanscrit are derivedthe alphabets of India, Burmah, Thibet, andJava. The old Persian is also shown bySpiegel to have a similar origin ; and Klap-roth has proved that the Mongolian, Tun-gusiau, and Manchu alphabets are from thePhoenician, through the Syriac, though modi-fied by the perpendicular columnar arrange-ment of the Chinese. Add to these the Sa-maritan, Ethiopic, and Syriac, the Arabic,with its characters modified or unmodified,as accepted by Turks, Persians, Malays, Hin-doostanees, and Touareks, and we have onlythe Chinese remaining that can claim an in-dependent origin. The writing materials of the ancientswere various. Stone, bricks, metals, gems,were all employed at an exceedingly ancientperiod. Wood was used on some lead, to which allusion is made in Jobxix., 24, is supposed to have been poured,. Writing Materials. when melted, into the cavities in the stonemade by the engraved letters for the sake ofinsuring greater durability. As the Egyp-tians had great skill in preparing skins, it isprobable that the Hebrews also used parch-ment for writing from a very early period,although they may also have used papyrus,which was employed by the Egyptians fromthe most remote times. The pen used wasan iron graver in the case of the harder ma-terials, or a reed for writing on ink was of lamp-black, or sometimesof vitriol, mixed with gall-juice. Modernscribes in the East carry with them at alltimes, suspended to their girdles, a case (thewriters ink-horn of Scripture), made ofbrass or ebony, consisting of a tube for hold-ing their reeds, and a bulb attached at oneend for the ink. 1 Numb, xvii., 3. YEA
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