Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 42
easily be distinguished. The samesort of tags are used to-day in the case of rolled maps kepton shelves. Until a late period the term1 parchment must be under-stood to mean vellum. Now we call sheep skin parchmentand calf skin vellum, and they are prepared in the sameway with lime, so that not… … Fig. 21.—Surnatran bark book in the formof a folded roll. Fig. 22.—Orihon. 30 THE BOOK: ITS HIST OK Y AND DEVELOPMENT. ever yet been found. The surface is singularly even andoffers little or no resistance to a pen, so that every sort ofhandwriting, square or round, is put upon it with equalease.…
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