The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 506
7 virgin parchment, which from its nature was suited to the delicacies ofcalligraphy and illumination. Moreover, we see from a statute of theUniversity of Paris, dated 1291, that the parchment trade had attainedat that period to considerable development; so, as a protection against thefrauds and… … the person of its rector, had not only the right of inspection, but alsothe refusal of all parchment bought in Paris, no matter whence it hadcome. Besides which, at the fair of Lendit, which was held everyyear at Saint-Denis, on the domains of the abbey (Fig. 329), and at thefair of Saint-Lazare,…
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