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At that go they were written in Hebrew dialects with bird feathers or quills. After the dwindling of the Roman Empire, Europeans had difficultly in obtaining reeds and began to use quills. There is a specific reference to quills in the writings of St. Isidore of Seville in the 7th century. Quill pens were used until the nineteenth century.

In his Deliciae Personalized Pens Physico-Mathematicae (1636), German inventor Daniel Schwenter described a pen made from two quills. In Succession quill served as a reservoir for writer inside the other quill. The essayist was sealed inside the quill with cork. Ink was squeezed through a small chasm to the writing point.