#Posts on medieval manuscripts skin
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#Posts on medieval manuscripts skin

Step one: Taketh the skin and wash it thoroughly in cold, clear stream water until it is clean. Remembereth that the colour of the wool will predict the colour of the parchment. Parchment that is patterned which is pleasing to thy eye may be foundeth from bridled cows or piebald goats. If thy is looking for parchment of white, taketh the skins of white sheep or cows. First taketh thy skins that are of good quality and of few flaws. The making of parchment is a slow and complicated process. If thou fingers do not sticketh, then thou needs to keep the mixture over the fire longer. Notes: To test thy mixture: placeth two fingers in the mixture and if they sticketh together when thy fingers hast cooled, then thou hast produced a good glue. Thou shalt be able to this four times with this same mixture.

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Filleth again with water until half full and cooketh as before. Placeth thy good glue in a vessel that hast been thoroughly cleaned. Keepeth thy cauldron over fire until a third of thy water hast evaporated. Fill thy cauldron with water and heateth over thy fire, but do not alloweth it boil. Placeth together thy skin and horn in a cauldron until half full. Then taketh a hammer from the smith and breaketh the horn of a stag on the head of an anvil until it is in small pieces. Orders: Taketh thy skin already dried and cutteth it into small pieces. Ingredients: Hide of an animal and the horn of a stag. Notes: Best ye remember, useth thy cheese glue quickly, lest it setteth itself hard before thy needeth it. Orders: Take thy cheese curds and mixeth with lime until it reaches a sticky, but flowing consistency. Once thy sewing is finished taketh the ends of the cords that had been laced through channels and tie them to wooden boards that formeth the front and back covers of thy manuscript.Ĭover the bindings with leather or decorative cloth and adorn if ye choosest with metal corner pieces and raised medallions that would help protecteth the binding of thy manuscript while it rested on a surface.

Taketh thy gatherings together and using the sewing frame attach the gatherings to the frame's attached cords of leather to createth a binding. Maketh sure ye keep thy gatherings in their proper order.

To bindeth thy parchment into a manuscript, foldeth the parchment together into gatherings. Once thy parchment surface is clean, use it for thy new manuscript. Wash the pages and if needed taketh thy knife and scrapeth old writing away. Take ye then a manuscript that is old and no longer used, pulleth from its binding the old pages of parchment. For thy manuscripts ye will have need of palimpsests.