Preferred label

Parchment                

Alternative label

Scope note

A writing substrate made from the skin of an animal, usually a calf, sheep, or goat, that has been dehaired, dried, stretched, and smoothed.         

Parent concept

Animal Substrate       

uh-linked-data/concept/20

Related concept                                                     

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/367