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  • Parchment
    • Interesting facts about parchment
    • The properties of skins and parchment
    • The manufacture of parchment
    • Explanatory dictionary
    • Formatting parchment into records
    • Skin and parchment in the history of writing materials
    • Parchment in the collections of the Tallinn City Archives
  • Condition of the parchment
    • Visual determination of damages
    • Preservation of parchment
    • Assessing the condition of parchment
    • Analysis of the condition of the parchment
    • Conservation of parchment
    • Digitization of the parchments
  • Atlas of the parchment damages
    • Atlas of the damages
    • A 1. Damages and characteristics that result from the properties of the skins
    • A 2. Damages and characteristics resulting from the manufacture of parchment
    • B 3. Characteristics and damages caused by the final finishing
    • B 4. Damages and characteristics caused by the formatting the parchment sheet
    • C 5. Changes related to conservation
    • C 6. Damage caused by storage and handling
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Interesting facts about parchment

The following information about the properties, manufacture, formatting, history, etc. of parchment is available here:

  • Parchment
  • Parchment in the collections of the Tallinn Archives  
  • The formatting of parchment into records
  • Properties of leather and parchment
  • Manufacture of parchment
  • History of leather and parchment as writing materials
  • Explanatory dictionary

 

Avers (Latin: avers). The observe side of unbound parchment sheets; side with the text. The treated side of the parchment base skin. See: recto. brittle detachment detach of parchment document epiderma fading flake off foxing glass-like layer Gypsum ink loss lõhestatud nahk Medium offset parandus parchment paper preservation conditions recto relative humidity rust accretion split stiff tear temperature verso värvus äratõmme

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