Tools for Indexing

If you were an indexer working in the middle of the Sixteenth Century, here is what you would need according to an article by Frederick L. Brown:

"In the middle of the sixteenth century, before sitting down to his task, Conrad Gesner[1] assembled the following items: glue, scissors, string, paper, pen and ink. We know these materials were associated with the indexer's craft from the lengthy discussion on indexing techniques contained in Gesner's Pandectae, published in 1548."

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I found this a highly interesting piece.
http://students.washington.edu/fbrown/files/lifebeing.htm