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[Jane M Tremaine]

In a message dated 6/24/00 2:49:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
ahrenshav at yahoo.com writes:

> Are you sure that you mean parchment?  It would be
>  very difficult to abrade paper.  Or do you really mean
>  vellum?  Most of the manuscripts that I know about
>  were written on vellum, which is kid skin, or lamb
>  skin or calf skin and much easier to abrade.
>  

Actually, parchment is animal hide as well.  The difference between vellum 
and parchment is merely a matter of which animal they came from (vellum, I 
believe, is sheep skin, and parchment is calf skin.  Or, it could be the 
other way around.) I have a very nice sample of actual parchment sitting on 
my desk in front of me.  It is in it's raw state (unburnished, unscraped), 
and just waiting for me to tackle it.  Modern parchment is paper...but the 
real stuff was hide.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

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