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4.2.2 Vellum manuscripts

 

Vellum had been used before the time of Christ and during the time of the Apostles. It is usually made from calf skin that had been soaked, and unhaired, and then dried at normal temperature under tension, usually on a wooden device called a stretching frame. In the third century, it began, outside of Egypt, to supersede papyrus. In the early part of the fourth century vellum and the codex (book-form) gained complete victory over papyrus and the roll-form. The three principal vellum ancient copies are:

 

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