vellum

• “Among the highlights will be a striking leaf with gold script on blue vellum from the celebrated "Blue Qur'an" produced in North Africa or the Near East in the ninth-10th century (estimate: £ 200,000 - £ 300,000).”

  The Wall Street Journal: Buying Islamic, Indian Art

• “If whole generations -- whole cultures -- were enabled, by such artistry, to see their own illusions as artifacts in vellum (or celluloid, or CRT), much would have been accomplished.”

  Life of Letitia Landon

• “They are all printed from large, clear type on a superior quality of flexible paper and bound in English vellum cloth, assorted colors, containing charming female heads lithographed in twelve colors, as inlays; the titles being stamped in harmonizing colors of ink or foil.”

  The Girls at Mount Morris

• “The fifty-eight pages are sewn in a single gathering and bound with a sheet of old vellum, which is now partially discolored from use.”

  The Huffington Post: Carolyn Vega: The ABCs of an Unknown Duchemin

• “The four corners of every book, however, should always be protected by leather or, better still, by vellum, which is a firmer material -- otherwise they will rapidly wear off, and the boards will break easily at their corners.”

  A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries

• “They imitated the old vellum so closely that it was even called vellum and is so known to this day.”

  Forty Centuries of Ink

• “When finished, the clean, shining, cream-colored skin was known as vellum, [12] or parchment.”

  The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization

• “Whilst they trust to your vain vellum, which is almost sure to sell”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892

• “Though written in the ancient manner -- using goose-quill pens on 2-foot-tall sheets of polished calfskin called vellum -- the Bible also reflects contemporary times.”

  StarTribune.com rss feed

• “All the ancient manuscripts are either upon parchment, or vellum, which is calf-skin, and a great deal finer than the common parchment.”

  The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6)

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