The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 480
we must suppose that Plinys assertion refers only to some improvementsthe King of Pergamus had made in the art of preparing a material thatcould supply the place of papyrus, which Ptolemy Epiphanius would nolonger allow to leave Egypt. The absolute deficiency of papyrus raisedinto activity the… … PARCHMENT AND PAPER. the one in rolls composed of many leaves sewed together, on one side ofwhich only was there writing ; the others, square-shaped, were written uponboth sides. The grammarian Crates, ambassador of Eumenius at Rome,passed as the inventor of vellum. Ordinary parchment is the skin…
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