graphium

[95] The stylus, or graphium, was an iron pen, broad at one end, with a sharp point at the other, used for writing upon waxen tables, the leaves or bark of trees, plates of brass, or lead, etc.

The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 01: Julius Caesar Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

The bishop makes a cross (a cross pattée with a pendant and the A and O [mega] is figured in the book) with a graphium (style), saying an antiphon "Sicut unguentum in capite etc.", and a prayer and benediction, both referring to the healing of the sick.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

If thou wouldst send love to thy sister, take graphium and parchment, and write fast as a scribe.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Upon a small tripod before her was a Runic manuscript, and an inkstand of elegant form, with a silver graphium, or pen.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

If thou wouldst send love to thy sister, take graphium and parchment, and write fast as a scribe.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Upon a small tripod before her was a Runic manuscript, and an inkstand of elegant form, with a silver graphium, or pen.

Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Meroving., vi, 62: * Vidimus et tabulas ipsius martyris et corneum graphium. '

Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770

All this no doubt the good abbess faithfully fulfilled; and stimulated by his friendship and these encouraging epistles, she set all the pens in her monastery industriously to work, and so gratified the Saxon missionary with those book treasures, which his soul so ardently loved; certain it is, that we frequently find him thanking her for books, and with famishing eagerness craving for more; one of his letters, [263] full of gratitude, he accompanies with a present of a silver graphium, or writing instrument, and soon after we find him thus addressing her:

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather

We shall find that Augustus caused it to be removed.] [Footnote 95: The stylus, or graphium, was an iron pen, broad at one end, with a sharp point at the other, used for writing upon waxen tables, the leaves or bark of trees, plates of brass, or lead, etc.

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus