The Language of Parchment: Tracing the evidence of changes in the methods of manufacturing parchment for manuscripts with the help of visual analyses.
Jiří Vnouček
Parchment has been used as a material for writing of manuscripts centuries. Results my research show that the value studies various types of
parchment, methods its preparation and identification animal species involved have several decades underestimated physical description many contains partly misleading information.
With use forms visual analyses combined with practical parchment-making experiments support biomolecular it possible to find correct answers shed new light on production parchment in different historical periods geographical locations. For I studied written time-span ranging from Late Antique Romanesque period, including some most significant Insular Carolingian codices.
Parchment own language. To understand message is important carry out systematic characteristics signs left surface by process manufacture or later damage.
Methods tools employed examination were kept quite simple, so any researcher manuscript would be able perform them. Different lighting helped recognize remarkable details, giving us information about animals, their sizes anatomy skins manuscripts. Special graphical photographical record traces originating reassembly original skins.
Visual might tool complementary traditional group disciplines study