Its library preserves hundreds of manuscripts collected during medieval times—classical ... of the library’s manuscripts were written on parchment, the specially prepared skin of a calf ...

The vast majority of historical parchment samples, though, can be traced to medieval times. There are roughly a million books made of parchment still intact from the medieval era, Stinson says ...

2025, with Tuomas Heikkilä from CHARM as one of the authors) published in npj Heritage Science, studied the vibrant colors of medieval Swedish manuscripts. By analyzing ten parchment fragments from ...