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• n  a heavy creamy-colored paper resembling parchment
• n  fine parchment prepared from the skin of a young animal e.g. a calf or lamb

• In later years, when he lost weight, his face took on a genial, Mandarin aspect, with skin drawn like vellum over high cheekbones.
• But in illuminated vellum manuscripts of the 9th to the 16th centuries the Morgan Library stands supreme.
• Inscribed on the vellum leaves were "flowers," the record of 22,145,089,361 acts of devotionmasses said, holy and spiritual communions, benedictions, "little offices" and .

News & Articles

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• The new age of algorithms: How it affects the way we live
  They work a few hundred yards from one of the Library of Congress's most prized possessions: a vellum copy of the Bible printed in 1455 by Johann Gutenberg, inventor of movable type. But almost six centuries later, Jane Mandelbaum and Thomas Youkel have a task that would confound Gutenberg.
  Aug. 11, 2013 - Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Alan Aldridge in Times Online
  First, everything was hand-drawn using Japanese pens on vellum,says Aldridge. "Then it was scanned and put together using Photoshop. It was much harder this time: it took three weeks."
• Rhodri Morgan in ic Wales
  Whoever wrote it was not a scribe or specialist who would have written all day most days,said Mr Morgan. "The parchment is not the best quality - the last few pieces of vellum have holes in them which he has written around - and he drew...
• James Billington in Atlantic Online
  The best-preserved data tends to be on stone steles and cuneiform tablets,Billington told me when I went to the library to hear about its recent attempts to solve the "digital preservation" problem. "Papyrus, vellum, parchment-all those...