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<p>[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2821967, member: 14873"]Yes, that is correct -- I should have said papyrus/paper documents are very fragile. I own several medieval parchment and vellum documents that are in very good condition. Many of the documents that I rendered (mostly on manuscript calfskin vellum) over fifty years ago remain in excellent condition. As you mention, it all depends on how they were stored -- moisture being the greatest enemy.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, they are called palimpsests. I was a young Calligraphy student in England when WW2 broke out (3 September 1939) -- it wasn't long before writing supplies (pen nibs, ink, paper - and especially parchment/vellum) were very hard to come by -- Stationary shops had pretty bare shelves. Our arts & crafts teacher (Mr. Wilfred Barton) somehow obtained a quantity of old vellum/parchment documents (maybe from our Town Hall?) that we made into palimpsests -- scraping off the existing writing using scratch pens -- rubbing down the surface using powdered pumice and water -- drying and pressing -- re-surfacing using dry powdered pumice and sandarac. It worked very well and we even re-processed some palimpsests to produce new ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an example (scrap portion) of an old document that I made into a palimpsest:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://jp29.org/calwigg1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 2821967, member: 14873"]Yes, that is correct -- I should have said papyrus/paper documents are very fragile. I own several medieval parchment and vellum documents that are in very good condition. Many of the documents that I rendered (mostly on manuscript calfskin vellum) over fifty years ago remain in excellent condition. As you mention, it all depends on how they were stored -- moisture being the greatest enemy. Yes, they are called palimpsests. I was a young Calligraphy student in England when WW2 broke out (3 September 1939) -- it wasn't long before writing supplies (pen nibs, ink, paper - and especially parchment/vellum) were very hard to come by -- Stationary shops had pretty bare shelves. Our arts & crafts teacher (Mr. Wilfred Barton) somehow obtained a quantity of old vellum/parchment documents (maybe from our Town Hall?) that we made into palimpsests -- scraping off the existing writing using scratch pens -- rubbing down the surface using powdered pumice and water -- drying and pressing -- re-surfacing using dry powdered pumice and sandarac. It worked very well and we even re-processed some palimpsests to produce new ones. Here is an example (scrap portion) of an old document that I made into a palimpsest: [IMG]http://jp29.org/calwigg1.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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