. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. triptycha—tablets or note-bootof three pieces—may be thus described. The three partswere formed by splitting a piece of pin. - f about two inches thick, and the surface of each was not -mouth,in order that when put together again they might tit themore exactly. Each piece was then slightly hollowedout, having, however, a margin all round, exactly like theframe of a common school slate. This margin prot(the writing inside, for the deeper part was covered with * This building stands on an eminence just o
. Transylvania; its products and its people. With maps and numerous ills. after photographs. triptycha—tablets or note-bootof three pieces—may be thus described. The three partswere formed by splitting a piece of pin. - f about two inches thick, and the surface of each was not -mouth,in order that when put together again they might tit themore exactly. Each piece was then slightly hollowedout, having, however, a margin all round, exactly like theframe of a common school slate. This margin prot(the writing inside, for the deeper part was covered with * This building stands on an eminence just outside the town, and fromthe balcony the best view of the town and neighbourhood is obtained. Itis a pretty villa in the midst of large pleasure-grounds, and the who!presented by its possessor, Count Kmerieh Miko, to the town, in a museum. KLAUSENBUKG. 435 a thin layer of wax and pitch, on which, with a style, thememoranda were written. The three tablets or leaves ofthe book were tied together by a string or thong, passedthrough a hole in the margin of each, making a compact. EOMAN TABLET FOUND AT VEEES-PATAE. little book. The exterior, on both sides, was smooth,like a bonnd volume of the present day. I will now sup-pose such a triptychum to be still in use, and describe theother leaves, the first or outer one being loosened and re-moved. The second and third are face to face, boundtogether by a woollen thread passed three times roundthem, through two holes on the edges of the raised mar-gin. This thread is not in the middle, but nearer the endof the tablet. On the outer surface of leaf No. 2 is agroove (the woollen thread lies in this), filled with yellowwax. As long as the triptychum was unopened, the sealsimpressed on this wax were unbroken. Seven sealsgenerally were used, and beside each, on the smallerdivision of the cover, was the name of him to whom theseal belonged. These individuals were the witnesses tothe transaction recorded, the sureties or vouchers, a
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