'Werkzeuge des Pegasus' is the companion catalogue to the exhibition 'Historische Schreibzeuge' in the Goethe National Museum, on view from 9 November 2002 to 5 January 2003 in Goethe's residence in Weimar on the ground floor and presented by the Stiftung Weimarer Klassik. The volume presents writing implements in various forms and materials such as ceramics, wood, porcelain, stone and glass in word and image and additionally shows furniture, writing-implement folios, ink bottles, nibs, letter openers and further writing accessories, above all from the second half of the 18th and from the 19th century. Among the outstanding exhibits is the writing ball made in 1867 in Copenhagen on which Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. The catalogue is divided into preface, an essay on writing instruments and creative writing in the 18th and 19th century, a catalogue part with writing implements, writing instruments and writing utensils, a section with illustrated portraits, an excursus on writing recipes and iron-gall ink, and bibliography and picture credits.