The handwriting, too, was all wrong, and the parchments were not old enough.
Among other questions discussed is the nature of evidence, given changes in writing systems and the materiality of the medium, from parchment to e-mail.
The parchment, now yellowish and worn at the edges, is thin and of excellent quality.
The spice of the incident lies in the audacity of the under dog: the simple, honest man converting rotten parchment bonds into matter-of-fact fodder.
Thirtyfive years later, the whole has a parchment-printed, etching-like quality reminiscent of that heroic era.
The wall is parchment-like, with virtual absence of myocardium.
The parchment was repaired in various and not always very competent ways, probably in the 1950s or 1960s; three pages are now overlaid with silk.
They included manufacturers of parchment, mastic, rope and twine, and soda water and ginger beer.
