parchment

Ingredients

animal skin

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

After the large parchment leaves had been dyed, a fifteen-line text box grid was incised onto the page with a dry point (p. 77). The parchment appears to have been sized and burnished with tremendous care (p. 76).

Evidence

"the blue dye of the parchment... Its dyed pages of deep blue and gold script exude a sober magnificence"

Remarks

The parchment is characterized by an even texture and a remarkably smooth and supple quality (p. 77). The size of the largest published folios is approximately 31 cm high by 41 cm wide (p. 75). Attempts to replicate the dyeing process suggested that immersion in hot vats would cause parchment to shrink and crack, leading to the hypothesis that a cold vat was utilized (p. 76).