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A scroll is a kind of roll of papyrus or paper used for writing in ancient civilizations before the codex or bound book was invented, and still today in some religious contexts. A scroll is read with one roll to the left and one roll to the right, and with columns of text running from top to bottom. In some scroll-using cultures painted illustrations ran above the columns of text, either in a continuous band or broken into scenes above either a single or double-column of text.
It is also the act of sliding (to scroll) through a presentation of contents (text, drawing or image) that doesn't fit the available display window in a computer's graphic user interface (GUI).

See also: parchment, paleography.



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