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<p>[QUOTE="Carausius, post: 2821952, member: 76440"]Great info on the styles! I have a different view of documents on parchment and vellum. If carefully handled and stored parchment and vellum can last millenia. Rather than fragility, I suspect manner of handling/storage and casualty loss (fire, flood etc.) are more to blame for the lack of surviving documents from antiquity. Also, werent many documents "erased" and the parchments/vellum reused? I've seen antique documents on parchement and vellum - i.e. Magna Carta - that look remarkably well preserved after nearly 1,000 years. I've got a 300 year-old family will on parchment that's in great shape. The Dead Sea Scrolls weren't in great shape, but they survived.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Carausius, post: 2821952, member: 76440"]Great info on the styles! I have a different view of documents on parchment and vellum. If carefully handled and stored parchment and vellum can last millenia. Rather than fragility, I suspect manner of handling/storage and casualty loss (fire, flood etc.) are more to blame for the lack of surviving documents from antiquity. Also, werent many documents "erased" and the parchments/vellum reused? I've seen antique documents on parchement and vellum - i.e. Magna Carta - that look remarkably well preserved after nearly 1,000 years. I've got a 300 year-old family will on parchment that's in great shape. The Dead Sea Scrolls weren't in great shape, but they survived.[/QUOTE]
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