Bookworms were a problem in the Middle Ages, but a decent vellum parchment could last 300 years.
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Each of the 137 leaves on auction is vellum made of sheepskin.
Mike Picknett, 43, was given the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for his part in the rescue of Keith Ellerby last October.
With brilliantly executed miniature paintings on most of 225 pages of enchanted vellum, the book provides text for just about any devotional or secular occasion.
Tell it in a word doc, or a storyboard, or scratch it with a quill pen on vellum, but whatever you do, create a story first.
Once the words received the royal thumbs up, an anonymous and highly discreet calligrapher was finally allowed to inscribe the text in special ink onto the vellum.
There, in their small workshop in Newport Pagnell in Buckinghamshire, the artisans cleaned and scraped and bleached and stretched the skin until it was transformed into vellum.
In some you will find, apart from the typical array of sake, library-like shelves lined not with vellum spines but with dark-gold bottles of Hakushu, Laphroaig, Bowmore and Yamazaki.
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It was offered together with his Nobel diploma, a handsome two-page vellum document that contains an original picture of a long-haired youth in a blue tunic holding the Rod of Asclepius.
It is being offered with his Nobel diploma, a handsome two-page vellum document that contains an original hand-colored picture of a long-haired youth in a blue tunic holding the Rod of Asclepius.
In February, Mr Picknett was given the RNLI's highest honour, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum, for his part in the rescue of an angler from the sea off Redcar's South Gare.
In 2002 Mr Pace received a vellum award for a rescue with the Robert and Violet involving a yacht called Annarchy, which was being blown out to sea with two members of crew on board after its engine failed.
Conservationists working in a new branch of the library still face the task of removing ash deposits between pages, repairing parchment volumes and vellum spines that split in the fierce heat a painstaking process that involves weeks of work on each book.
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