In fact, any combination of codices and scrolls on the one hand with papyrus and parchment on the other is technically feasible and well attested from the historical record.

The mandolin soundboard ( the top ) comes in many shapes — but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections.

It was there that he discovered the Diamond Sutra, the world's oldest printed text which has a date ( corresponding to AD 868 ), along with 40, 000 other scrolls ( all removed by gradually winning the confidence of the Taoist caretaker ).

To form the long strip scrolls required, a number of such sheets were united, placed so all the horizontal fibres parallel with the roll's length were on one side and all the vertical fibres on the other.

Apparently starting in embroidery, it then appears in garden design before being used in Northern Mannerist painted decorative schemes " with a central medallion combined with acanthus and other forms " by Simon Vouet and then Charles Lebrun who used " scrolls of flat bandwork joined by horizontal bars and contrasting with ancanthus scrolls and palmette.

Another Talmudic story, perhaps referring to an earlier time, relates that three Torah scrolls were found in the Temple court but were at variance with each other.

The scrolls show numerous small variations in orthography, both as against the later Masoretic text, and between each other.

Renowned calligraphers, they produce the Hebrew Torah scrolls and other holy texts by hand to this day.

This chain of tradition includes the interpretation of unclear statements in the Bible ( e. g. that the " fruit of a beautiful tree " refers to a citron as opposed to any other fruit ), the methods of textual exegesis ( the disagreements recorded in the Mishna and Talmud generally focus on methods of exegesis ), and Laws with Mosaic authority that cannot be derived from the Biblical text ( these include measurements ( e. g. what amount of an non-kosher food must one eat to be liable ), the amount and order of the scrolls to be placed in the phylacteries, etc.

The scrolls are traditionally identified with the ancient Jewish sect called the Essenes, though some recent interpretations have challenged this association and argue that the scrolls were penned by priests in Jerusalem, Zadokites, or other unknown Jewish groups.

Therefore verifying the scrolls of Abraham from other traditions, especially from Judaism has no basis.

Many Modern Orthodox synagogues, and many synagogues of other Jewish movements, however, have the Israeli flag with the Star of David prominently displayed at the front of the synagogues near the Ark containing the Torah scrolls.

The other main type of scrolling shooter is a " horizontal shooter " or " side-scrolling shooter ", in which the action is viewed side-on and scrolls horizontally.

Although it seems clear from the style of the script that the text was written at Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, it is possible that the binding was then added at Lindisfarne ; the form of the plant scrolls can be compared to those on the portable altar also found in Cuthbert's coffin, presumed to have been made there, though also to other works of the period, such as the shaft of an Anglo-Saxon cross from Penrith and the Vespasian Psalter.

The most common application of this is sealing weapons or other objects within scrolls to efficiently carry a large number of items.

In fact they were true offices since the scrolls were meant for record keeping and other management functions such as treaties and edicts, and not for writing or keeping poetry or other works of fiction.

The " kingdom " in the War Scroll of the Dead Sea scrolls, and other mentions of " kingdom " and " rule " are linked with Messianic expectations, and the establishment of a military-political kingdom on earth.

At the same time the school continued to paint monochrome ink-on-silk landscapes for hanging scrolls in the Chinese tradition, as well as other types of subjects such as portraits.

Muslim tradition also maintains that Adam received scrolls, as did some of the other patriarchs of the Generations of Adam.

Often, one of the scrolls is fixed, while the other orbits eccentrically without rotating, thereby trapping and pumping or compressing pockets of fluid or gas between the scrolls.

The term was first used in the West in Italian, where rabeschi was used in the 16th century as a term for " pilaster ornaments featuring acanthus decoration, specifically " running scrolls " that ran vertically up a panel or pilaster, rather than horizontally along a frieze.

Anglo-Saxon decoration often combines panels of vine-leaf scrolls with others of interlace, although the placement and effect from a distance is similar to Celtic examples.

The artistic inspiration from Greek floral scrolls is found quite literally in the decoration of Japanese roof tiles, one of the only remaining element of wooden architecture throughout centuries.

* Tag ( Hebrew writing ), a decoration drawn over some of the letters in Jewish scrolls

The bronze decoration is of extraordinarily high quality, especially the doors with lions heads and the interior railings, with their Corinthian order columns and acanthus scrolls.

Finally, the artistic inspiration from Greek floral scrolls is found quite literally in the decoration of Japanese roof tiles, one of the only remaining elements of wooden architecture to have survived the centuries.

Some of the decoration relates to contemporary architectural ornament, with egg-and-tongue ( ovolo ) mouldings, acanthus and vine scrolls and the like.

Local style in art and decoration included scrolls, simple curves, straight lines, and images of wild animals.

There were intermediate stages, such as scrolls folded concertina-style and pasted together at the back and books that were printed only on one side of the paper.

The Biblia pauperum (" Paupers ' Bible "), a tradition of picture Bibles beginning in the later Middle Ages, sometimes depicted Biblical events with words spoken by the figures in the miniatures written on scrolls coming out of their mouths — which makes them to some extent ancestors of the modern cartoon strips.

Beyond ink and color on silk or paper scrolls, gold on lacquer was also a common medium in painted East Asian artwork.

* Sofer ( scribe )-Torah scrolls, tefillin ( phylacteries ), mezuzot ( scrolls put on doorposts ), and gittin ( bills of divorce ) must be written by a sofer who is an expert in Hebrew calligraphy and has undergone rigorous training in the laws of writing sacred texts.

A hall contained shelves for the collections of scrolls ( as the books were at this time on papyrus scrolls ), known as bibliothekai ( βιβλιοθῆκαι ).

Unlike the Greek libraries, readers had direct access to the scrolls, which were kept on shelves built into the walls of a large room.

Libraries were filled with parchment scrolls as at Library of Pergamum and on papyrus scrolls as at Alexandria: the export of prepared writing materials was a staple of commerce.

At this time the library catalogue was written on scrolls of fine silk and stored in silk bags.

Herodotus mentions writing on skins as common in his time, the 5th century BCE ; and in his Histories ( v. 58 ) he states that the Ionians of Asia Minor had been accustomed to give the name of skins ( diphtherai ) to books ; this word was adapted by Hellenized Jews to describe scrolls.

The word for the material papyrus is also used to designate documents written on sheets of it, often rolled up into scrolls.

papyrus scrolls, which made them transcribed records of the lyrics Sappho sung while accompanying herself on a cithara.

It is mammal skin prepared for writing or printing on, to produce single pages, scrolls, codices or books.

He is holding a towel on which have been placed 12 scrolls, representing the teaching of the Twelve Apostles.

Before Gutenberg, books were copied out by hand on scrolls and paper, or printed from hand-carved wooden blocks.

The interior of the synagogue is laid out in the Romaniote way: the Bimah ( where the Torah scrolls are read out during service ) is on a raised dais on the western wall, the Aron haKodesh ( where the Torah scrolls are kept ) is on the eastern wall and at the middle there is a wide interior aisle.