so little was known about these documents that many were incorrectly catalogued as calfskin vellum, when they were actually made of sheepskin parchment. Dr Doherty said: “The text written on ...

He added: “All of humankind’s history is on parchment and vellum. Magna Carta was written on parchment. The Dead Sea Scrolls: parchment, in 435BC.” Today, he says, William Cowley ...

Vellum lasts ... physical records of parchment, paper and photographs in the 325ft tall Victoria Tower at the western edge of the Palace of Westminster. In the tower, scrolls of vellum are piled ...