Ricprimus's Blog – April 2013 Archive (3)

The Bible Before Printing

 Part 4: Techniques of the Scribal Arts

    A. Making Parchment…

The Bible Before Printing

 Part 4: Techniques of the Scribal Arts  

  A. Making Parchment

PART I - GENERAL…

  As I was working on the on-going project to digitize my notes, writings and files over the years, it came to me I had a large collection of materials to do a presentation for AAG members that might be interested on the process of bookmaking as it developed along with the History of the Bible itself as a book. Indeed, much of the early bookmaking and scribal arts was tailored exclusively towards the production of the…