calligrams

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Across
  1. 2. The place of one of the most significant libraries of the ancient world
  2. 5. ‘The Library of …’ – a short story by Jorge Luis Borges that describes a universe in the form of a gigantic library
  3. 7. The stone (stele) that enabled Jean-François Champollion to make the first step in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs
  4. 8. Mediaeval document written in duplicate (or more) on a single piece of parchment, then cut across a single word, so that each holder of a portion can prove it matches the others
  5. 11. The earliest extant codex of the Greek New Testament, discovered by Constantin von Tischendorf
  6. 12. The author of a lost book on comedy, on which the central murder mystery hinges in Umberto Eco’s ‘The Name of the Rose’
Down
  1. 1. A combination of two or more letters joined into a single unit
  2. 3. An inscription at the end of a manuscript with facts about its production
  3. 4. Writing support (e.g. parchment) used one or more times after earlier writing has been erased
  4. 6. The name of the most enigmatic illuminated manuscript written in Europe in an unknown writing system, which has not been hitherto deciphered.
  5. 9. A Jewish form of calligrams, utilizing minute Hebrew letters to form images
  6. 10. The earliest extant Islamic style of writing that was used by early Muslims to record the Qurʾān