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 .
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.
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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...