Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1890 — PRETTY FINE WRITING. [ARTICLE]

PRETTY FINE WRITING.

AU the Old Testament Written on a Single Sheet. In a book dealer’s place in Broadway, not far from Eighth street, New York, curiosity seekers and men jvho can afford to indulge their love for queer manuscripts can find perhaps the strangest bit of writing known. On a piece of parchment-like paper, five feet wide and six feet five inches high, are written all the books of the Old Testament, forming the design of a window in King Solomon’s temple. No lines are used. Written words form the whole design. The writing is very minute, but legible to the naked eye. Ink of three colors was used, but principally black ink. It is a very intricate piece of work, marvelous in its way, and must have taken considerable time and patience. The work was executed by one David Davidson, apparently in a snood of religious fervor. He was blind of an eye, and his manner of writing was to lie at full length upon the floor, on his stomach, with his eye (he was near-sighted) very close to the paper. He died some twenty years ago. Eash chapter and verse is numbered. The writing is not running script, but -each letter is separate, nor are the letters much, if any, larger than a thirtysecond of an inch high Th? work is for sale, but a high price is set upon it