scroll
1. A roll of material, e.g., parchment. usually
bearing writing and rolled onto rods, which were
usually fitted with handles. The scroll, and early
forms of manuscript, was called volumen (roll) by
the Romans, and is the word from which volume is
derived. The scroll (or roll) consisted of a
number of sheets of papyrus, parchment, etc.,
glued together to form a long strip and wound on a
rod. The scroll was generally fitted with a
parchment cover, fastened with laces, and finished
with a "sittybus", or title label. Sometimes the
scroll or scrolls were kept in a SCRINIUM . The text
was written in relatively narrow columns on the
recto side of the material, which in the case of
papyrus was the side having the horizontal strips.
2. A decorative motif consisting of any of several
spiral or convoluted forms, resembling the cross
section of a loosely rolled strip of paper and
generally used between flowers on a ROLL (1) (12 , 183 , 250 )
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