• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    16 hours ago

    Yep! That’s, in fact, what parchment exclusively means! Papyrus was the only major alternative until the innovation of paper made its way to Europe from China.

    It was often stretched and sliced thin enough to be usable even in codices (‘books’ as we would recognize them), not just scrolls.

    14th century codex with parchment pages right there, in fantastic condition.

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      16 hours ago

      Nice. Kudos for speed too! (At the time of writing the post is 9h old and still i received the provided context within 5 minutes of commenting. 💯)