Steven Avery
Well-known member
The title he excerpted from is called "The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club" by Christopher De Hamel. It came out 10/27.
Thanks.
And I like this quote from Christopher de Hamel.
Medieval Craftsmen
Scribes and Illuminators (1992)
Christopher De Hamel, British Museum
https://books.google.com/books?id=9X1Vc393iPAC&pg=PA12
In the early monastic period of manuscript production parchment was often quite thick, but by the thirteenth century it was being planed away to an almost tissue thinness.