Pergament oder: Was haben Tiere jemals für uns getan?
This article tries to offer a new perspective on parchment, mainly with regard to animals whose skins were, and sometimes still are, used to manufacture this writing material. A short outline of the manufacturing process serves as a basis and is complemented by a similarly short history of developme...
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| description | This article tries to offer a new perspective on parchment, mainly with regard to animals whose skins were, and sometimes still are, used to manufacture this writing material. A short outline of the manufacturing process serves as a basis and is complemented by a similarly short history of development and usage. Subsequently, some calculations, which should not be taken too seriously, may illustrate the huge number of animals that had to be slaughtered to produce enough parchment for all the codices in the older collections of our libraries. The second main topic is the animals who served as the main source for parchment during the German Middle Ages, namely sheep, goats and cattle. Therefore aspects of zooarchaeology and agricultural history are brought up here as well. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0475b9d3b08e4254869ba83fd73d160f2022-12-22T03:39:58ZdeuInstitut für Bibliothekswissenschaft BerlinLibrary Ideas1860-79502020-12-013810.18452/23464Pergament oder: Was haben Tiere jemals für uns getan?Michael BechtThis article tries to offer a new perspective on parchment, mainly with regard to animals whose skins were, and sometimes still are, used to manufacture this writing material. A short outline of the manufacturing process serves as a basis and is complemented by a similarly short history of development and usage. Subsequently, some calculations, which should not be taken too seriously, may illustrate the huge number of animals that had to be slaughtered to produce enough parchment for all the codices in the older collections of our libraries. The second main topic is the animals who served as the main source for parchment during the German Middle Ages, namely sheep, goats and cattle. Therefore aspects of zooarchaeology and agricultural history are brought up here as well.https://libreas.eu/ausgabe38/bechtparchmenthistorylibrarycodexanimal skinpergamentgeschichtebibliothekkodextierhäute |
| spellingShingle | Michael Becht Pergament oder: Was haben Tiere jemals für uns getan? Library Ideas parchment history library codex animal skin pergament geschichte bibliothek kodex tierhäute |
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| title_short | Pergament oder: Was haben Tiere jemals für uns getan? |
| title_sort | pergament oder was haben tiere jemals fur uns getan |
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