10-10-2016, 01:29 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-10-2016, 01:36 PM by Diane.
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Peter,
This is a technical subject, and so what's needed is a technical definition - not just the OED's.
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Rene,
Sorry to pull rank on you, but you have neither qualifications nor experience in this field and, as it happens, I do. Your impression of what professional conservators say, or whether they use such terms as 'substrate' or 'vellum' often, or not often, or only in particular circumstances seems to have been gained locally and at second hand. In any case, it is a mistaken impression.
To speak of 'parchment' is inappropriate in describing a particular manuscript, whose bifolia are made of vellum. Not of 'animal skin' and not of 'calf skin' and not of 'parchment'. These particular bifolia are of coarse vellum, and there is absolutely no point to using other than the correct term.
Calling it anything else can only obscure the fact that this material, to this level of finish, and made to these dimensions do not indicate manufacture in 'central Europe' as your theory has it.
This is a technical subject, and so what's needed is a technical definition - not just the OED's.
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Rene,
Sorry to pull rank on you, but you have neither qualifications nor experience in this field and, as it happens, I do. Your impression of what professional conservators say, or whether they use such terms as 'substrate' or 'vellum' often, or not often, or only in particular circumstances seems to have been gained locally and at second hand. In any case, it is a mistaken impression.
To speak of 'parchment' is inappropriate in describing a particular manuscript, whose bifolia are made of vellum. Not of 'animal skin' and not of 'calf skin' and not of 'parchment'. These particular bifolia are of coarse vellum, and there is absolutely no point to using other than the correct term.
Calling it anything else can only obscure the fact that this material, to this level of finish, and made to these dimensions do not indicate manufacture in 'central Europe' as your theory has it.