How To Use Vellum In A Sentence
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Handsome his library will never be, for here there will be a whole set of paper-bound volumes lacking backs, here a folio strangely patched and mended, there a book in rather dirty vellum somewhat cockled by damp, and so on.
The Book-Hunter at Home
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The four corners of every book, however, should always be protected by leather or, better still, by vellum, which is a firmer material -- otherwise they will rapidly wear off, and the boards will break easily at their corners.
A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries
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Vellum, traditionally made from calf skin as opposed to parchment which is made from goat or sheep skin, is very expensive.
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Often referred to as vellum, which etymologically means calfskin, parchment results from soaking the skins in lime and water, scraping, and drying them while stretched.
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Chaldaicus, printed on vellum, a beautiful copy, Sabionnettæ, 1557; many beautiful Horae, printed on vellum; Enchiridion Ecclesiæ Sarum, printed on vellum, extremely rare and interesting, Paris.
Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
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Other maps have been revised so many times that the vellum has holes in it, and parts of them are so old that we cannot unfold them without destroying them.
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The edition size is 125 and comes packaged in a custom linen portfolio box interleaved with vellum sheets.
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The parchment on which they wrote was vellum, calfskin, prepared by well established methods.
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To clean an unidentified spot of dirt from a page of a Samaritan Pentateuch (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible), Ms. de Arteni used a very soft vinyl eraser, a medium that won't abrade the vellum (animal skin) of the rare 13th-century volume.
The New York Public Library: From Vault to Exhibition Gallery: Conserving Library Treasures
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The lithographed posters are entirely hand printed, one color and one sheet at a time, on an old German litho press using 320 grain Coventry Rag Vellum paper.
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He sleuthed alone in the musty stacks, he hovered over the mahogany drawers lined with vellum manuscripts.
WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
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Originally these bands were made of silk or cotton worked over cord, leather or vellum and fastened inside the spine.
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a "bibliomane" who in his dreams supposes himself to be purchasing "early editions on vellum" for "trifling" sums (18). close window
'Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists
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Just a quick post to say that the German version of Vellum is now available in hardback from the independent press, Shayol.
Archive 2007-05-01
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A large and copious terrar on vellum, with rubric titles, very neat, folio grandi.
Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...
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The Covenant are led by Metatron--formerly known as Enki, the Sumerian inventor of writing--who has calcified reality by trapping it within the pages of The Book of All Hours, a description of everything that has and will happen in every fold of the Vellum, and who is now--at the beginning of Vellum, in the near future--rounding up the last of the unaffiliated unkin in preparation for the final battle between good and evil.
The Book of All Hours by Hal Duncan
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Perhaps planning to use the old vellum to forge the will himself.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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Before the advent of the printing press, books were made of vellum because it was durable.
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Those were the days when the craft of bookbinding involved working with linen thread, webbing, animal glues, vellum, leather, millboards and handmade papers.
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Emperor, was allowed to enter a kind of charnel-house, and to see what had been the lovely gaily-painted vellums lying squalidly piled in heaps.
The Great Book-Collectors
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The character of Seamus Finnan in Vellum has some fairly preachy dialogue of a socialist-pacifist bent, and I am, it has to be said, fairly bolshie myself.
Critique From HereNow
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And as on the yellowy white of the vellum book-cover, so here on the thymy grass of the knoll it shone golden.
The House of Arden
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The best medium to preserve one's writings, however, is vellum, which is made from calf skin exposed to lime which is then worked by tanners into a usable writing skin.
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For all permanent purposes "boc-fel," or book-skin, was used; either vellum or "parchëmyn smothe, whyte and scribable.
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages
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Among the highlights will be a striking leaf with gold script on blue vellum from the celebrated "Blue Qur'an" produced in North Africa or the Near East in the ninth-10th century (estimate: £ 200,000 - £ 300,000).
Buying Islamic, Indian Art
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Up above, on the circular platform, when they came out into the diffuse light, filtering through a vellum, there was a sort of ovation around Marie; soft whispers, beatifical glances, a rapture of delight in seeing, following, and touching her.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5
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under the vellum is a sassy little poddle from a vintage bridge score card, pretty pink and white polka dots and blue burlap textured paper.
6 months worth of ATCs
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Sextodecimo, vellum binding, Batchelor Flower (2) paper, Golden type; 525 paper copies, 21 on vellum This was the only sextodecimo bound in vellum.
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Whereupon I screamed, and the Prince, who was writing in the large vellum book in the oriel window, came out in his velvet skull-cap and furred slippers, snatched a rapier from the wall – the King of Spain's gift, you know – on which I escaped, flinging on this cloak to hide the ravages to my skirt – to hide ...
Monday or Tuesday
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The fifty-eight pages are sewn in a single gathering and bound with a sheet of old vellum, which is now partially discolored from use.
Carolyn Vega: The ABCs of an Unknown Duchemin
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Paint a metal-edged vellum gift tag (available at crafts stores) green, and punch a small hole on both ends of the tag.
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I sat there a while longer, staring down at the vellum pages of the book on the low desk before me.
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The library is said to have contained hundreds of thousands of papyrus and vellum scrolls.
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We seem to understand apad vellumtomes muniment, Arans Duhkha, among hoseshoes, cheriotiers and etceterogenious bargainbout-barrows, ofver and umnder, since, evenif or although, in double preposition as in triple conjunction, how the mudden research in the topaia that was Mankaylands has gone to prove from the picalava present in the maramara melma that while a successive generation has been in the deep deep deeps of Deepereras.
Finnegans Wake
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Inside the shoebox was a stack of letters in vellum envelopes addressed in a curt, clean handwriting that must have been his.
Spin
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Like bitter juice scratched in eldritch patience and dried on vellum skin. plethora convoluted diadem
Rockin' babies and finally done with the class
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Thisafter, swift’s mightmace deposing, he shall aidress to His Serenemost by a speechreading from his miniated vellum, alfi byrni gamman dealter etcera zezera eacla treacla youghta kaptor lomdom noo, who meaningwhile that illuminatured one, Papyroy of Pepinregn, my Sire, great, big King,
Finnegans Wake
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Irish writings prior to the use of paper and print were written on vellum in a distinctive minuscule script which reflects 1,000 years of literary tradition.
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He drew his thumb along the flap and pulled out a single sheet of white vellum, written just on one side.
RESCUING ROSE
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To make butterfly, moth, or dragonfly wings, cut vellum into symmetrical curves.
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They work in silence and the only sound is their breathing and the continual rasp of their nibs across vellum.
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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Its pages were heavy vellum and in the centre of the opened one were six lines of uneven length.
PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
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Early codices were made of papyrus but later developments replaced this by vellum.
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I've read Vellum in german first (and I agree that the translation is very good).
Interview: Hannes Riffel
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There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings.
The Memory Palace
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I enquired the cause, when, with his natural candour, he informed me that he could not help being more impressed by what he termed the prating of the gossips who had just left us, than, perhaps, he ought to be; and then showed me a little vellum case which he found at the Lodge, and which, he was then assured, was dropped by the young lady of whom they had been talking.
Vicissitudes in Genteel Life
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Right: A handsome array in calf, morocco and vellum.
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There are Books of Hours painted on vellum, intricate hymnals, Psalters, antiphonals, breviaries, bestiaries, herbals, and luminous Bibles for monasteries and kings.
The Memory Palace
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The books and manuscripts were written on vellum, a preparation of calf, goat and sheep skins.
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Nessler specializes in working on the old-fashioned medium of vellum, or calfskin, and sells her work for $1,000 to $7,000.
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The new works may be her most reserved and elegant since the monochromes (such as charcoal on vellum) that she made in the late '80s.
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If whole generations -- whole cultures -- were enabled, by such artistry, to see their own illusions as artifacts in vellum (or celluloid, or CRT), much would have been accomplished.
Life of Letitia Landon
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From what scholars have managed to read so far they believe it is an early Christian Psalter written on vellum, a parchment made from animal skin.
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It is written on a piece of vellum in a gothic script, and it is difficult to read -- not only because the style of handwriting is unfamiliar, but also because of the method of abbreviating words that is peculiar to medieval Latin.
Carolyn Vega: King John's 1205 Charter
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its nonextant original was written on vellum
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They are all printed from large, clear type on a superior quality of flexible paper and bound in English vellum cloth, assorted colors, containing charming female heads lithographed in twelve colors, as inlays; the titles being stamped in harmonizing colors of ink or foil.
The Girls at Mount Morris
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Wishing, therefore, Lorenzo speedily to purchase a small bronze figure of him, from the celebrated large one at Rotterdam, and to place the same upon a copy of his first edition of the _Greek Testament_ printed _upon vellum_, [301] by way of
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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She was presented with a testimonial on vellum, personally signed by society president Princess Alexandra, during the ceremony, at the Austrian Ambassador's residence in west London.
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The Bible is written on vellum or calfskin, using 250 skins, with a thicker texture for the illustrations.
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Cut the vellum in half, and attach each piece to the body with brads.
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The fore-edge painting could, of course, be combined with a vellum or Etruscan calf binding.
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One example - out of many - is his discussion of the mezuzah, a small capsule attached to the doorposts of Jewish homes containing a piece of vellum with verses from the Book of Deuteronomy.
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Each inventory consists of a vellum roll listing the contents of the house room by room, in more or less detail, with estimated total values given for each room.
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... inked by monks in lamplight, drawn in brilliant colours on vellum, pale but rich in tone, not bleached pure white but yellowed, brown, the colour of skin, of earth, of wood, old bone, of things that were all once alive.
Images Of Vellum And Ink
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Other early materials were parchment, made from the untanned skins of sheep or goats and vellum, or fine parchment, made from calf-, kid-, and lambskin.
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Other early materials were parchment, made from the untanned skins of sheep or goats and vellum, or fine parchment, made from calf-, kid-, and lambskin.
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In the vellum codex, though each leaf might have only one fold, and thus technically be considered as a folio, the actual shape of it was nearly square, hence its name of _codex quadratus_.
Illuminated Manuscripts
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They imitated the old vellum so closely that it was even called vellum and is so known to this day.
Forty Centuries of Ink
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Irish writings prior to the use of paper and print were written on vellum in a distinctive minuscule script which reflects 1,000 years of literary tradition.