JKP and others interested in this subject -
I gather that some have not encountered use of the word 'membrane' as a generic term.
I didn't realise that it wasn't more widely known, but I guess it musn't be.
Here are a couple of references, anyway, which may help those feeling puzzled.
Marion Kite, Roy Thomson, Conservation of Leather and Related Materials (2006).
- as example see Section 20.5.3 (p.211)
also - a bit puzzled about why the conversation took such a bizarre turn on another thread, where Winker (as usual) seemed to have no particular aim but thoroughly misrepresented the facts of the matter... I even checked the wiki article - to find that even there it says, quite plainly:
"It may be called animal membrane by libraries and museums that wish to avoid distinguishing between parchment and vellum".
- really. And no-one thought to check before adopting hearsay offered on the list?
In the lab or in conversation, we usually assume that when the subject is a medieval manuscript the "animal-" part can be omitted - taken for granted. So we just speak about "membrane".
What I really don't understand is why forum members rely so very much on hearsay... there are technical articles and ~dictionaries.
I will admit that having endured seven solid years of Winker's efforts to pretend that I don't know what I'm talking about, I was rather hoping that he wouldn't migrate here from Santacoloma's list. I daresay he hoped the opposite.
D
I gather that some have not encountered use of the word 'membrane' as a generic term.
I didn't realise that it wasn't more widely known, but I guess it musn't be.
Here are a couple of references, anyway, which may help those feeling puzzled.
Marion Kite, Roy Thomson, Conservation of Leather and Related Materials (2006).
- as example see Section 20.5.3 (p.211)
also - a bit puzzled about why the conversation took such a bizarre turn on another thread, where Winker (as usual) seemed to have no particular aim but thoroughly misrepresented the facts of the matter... I even checked the wiki article - to find that even there it says, quite plainly:
"It may be called animal membrane by libraries and museums that wish to avoid distinguishing between parchment and vellum".
- really. And no-one thought to check before adopting hearsay offered on the list?
In the lab or in conversation, we usually assume that when the subject is a medieval manuscript the "animal-" part can be omitted - taken for granted. So we just speak about "membrane".
What I really don't understand is why forum members rely so very much on hearsay... there are technical articles and ~dictionaries.
I will admit that having endured seven solid years of Winker's efforts to pretend that I don't know what I'm talking about, I was rather hoping that he wouldn't migrate here from Santacoloma's list. I daresay he hoped the opposite.
D