Encyclopedia > Parchment

Article Content

Parchment

Parchment is a material for the pages of a book or codex, made from fine calf skin. Parchment is named after the city Pergamon where it was first invented. One sort of parchment is vellum[?].

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

Rameses

... ("The Great") Ramses III Ramses IV[?] The name means "Child of the Sun". This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that mig ...