Those roll sticks are wonderful, I didn't know they existed. Somehow I didn't even think they called roll back then lol. Looking at higher education from today's viewpoint it would be a vast understatement to say we have the advantage over students from this time period. When looking at it from the vantage of the students on that roll stick, they must have thought the same thing. Each new crop of students back then must have thought they were on the cutting edge of society and modernity.

The illustrations on the old books and manuscripts is an absolute treasury of art and it saddens me to think of them crumbling into dust, I am glad to see them preserved as best as they can be.