The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 504
are of the fourth and fifth centuryof our era. Admitting that time destroys all, and also that the work of therude tribes on many occasions assisted this natural cause of destruction, wemust not forget that at certain periods, to supply the place of new parch-ment when it was scarce, a plan had… … 416 PARCHMENT AND PAPER. for a similar purpose, either by scraping and rubbing them with pumice-stone, or by boiling them in water or soaking in lime. There is no doubtbut the scarceness and the dearness of parchment was the cause of the lossof very many excellent works. Muratori cites, for…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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