Additional links here; there's also a video on parchment-making at the Getty's website.
For hornes and strengþe of skynne, the rammes skynnes suffreþ and sustieneþ violente craftes of coriours, of parchemeners, passynge felles and skynnes of oþre schiepe.
Trevisa’s translation of De proprietatibus rerum, British Library Add. 27944
- A monk prepares parchment, 12th century
- St. Jerome inspects a sheet of parchment from a parchment-maker (Kongelige Bibliotek Copenhagen 4.2 I, fol. 183), 13th century
- A parchment-maker, Ci nous dit (Musée Condé 26, fol. 69v), 14th century
- A parchment-seller's shop, Memorie (Biblioteca Universitaria Bologna 1463, fol. 3), 15th century
- Fritz Pyrmetter, Mendel Hausbuch (Amb. 317.2, fol. 34v), c. 1425
- Ars Memorandi (ÖNB 5393, fol. 333r), 1465
- The parchment-maker, Das Ständebuch, 1568
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