A pen (Latin penna, feather) is a penmanship utensil not new to apply ink to a surface, sometimes paper. There are manifold divergent types, including ballpoint, rollerball, fountain, and felt-tip. Historically, reed pens, quill pens, and dip pens were used.
At that time they were written in Hebrew dialects with bird feathers or quills. After the Personalized Pens dwindling of the Roman Empire, Europeans had difficultly in obtaining reeds and began to account quills. There is a specific reference to quills in the writings of St. Isidore of Seville in the 7th century. Quill pens were absorbed until the nineteenth century.