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  2. Matthew Pittinsky - Wikipedia

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    CEO of Parchment. Known for. Co-founder of Blackboard Inc along with Michael Chasen, Stephen Gilfus, Daniel Cane. Matthew Pittinsky is an American technology entrepreneur, educator and academic. He is the CEO of Parchment and a co-founder of Blackboard Inc. Pittinsky is also affiliated with Arizona State University as an assistant research ...

  3. Parchment - Wikipedia

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    Parchment. Parchment is a writing material made from specially prepared untanned skins of animals—primarily sheep, calves, and goats. It has been used as a writing medium for over two millennia. Vellum is a finer quality parchment made from the skins of young animals such as lambs and young calves.

  4. Chinon Parchment - Wikipedia

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    The Chinon Parchment is a historical document discovered in September 2001 by Barbara Frale, an Italian paleographer at the Vatican Apostolic Archive. On the basis of this document she has claimed that, in 1308, Pope Clement V absolved the last Grand Master, Jacques de Molay, and the rest of the leadership of the Knights Templar from charges ...

  5. Birmingham Quran manuscript - Wikipedia

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    Birmingham Quran manuscript. The Birmingham Quran manuscript is a single sheet of parchment on which two leaves of an early Quranic manuscript or muṣḥaf have been written. In 2015, the manuscript, which is held by the University of Birmingham, [1] was radiocarbon dated to between 568 and 645 CE (in the Islamic calendar, between 56 before ...

  6. Voynich manuscript - Wikipedia

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    Voynich manuscript Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library A floral illustration on page 32 Also known as Beinecke MS408 Type codex Date Unknown; parchment dated to early 15th century Place of origin Unknown; possibly Italy Language(s) Unknown; possibly natural or constructed language [a] Author(s) Unknown; suggested (amongst others): Roger Bacon Wilfrid Voynich himself [7] Jakub of Tepenec ...

  7. Manuscript - Wikipedia

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    Parchment or vellum, as the best type of parchment is known, had also replaced papyrus, which was not nearly so long lived and has survived to the present almost exclusively in the very dry climate of Egypt, although it was widely used across the Roman world. Parchment is made of animal skin, normally calf, sheep, or goat, but also other animals.

  8. Sanaa manuscript - Wikipedia

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    The Sanaa palimpsest (also Ṣanʽā’ 1 or DAM 01-27.1) or Sanaa Quran is one of the oldest Quranic manuscripts in existence. Part of a sizable cache of Quranic and non-Quranic fragments discovered in Yemen during a 1972 restoration of the Great Mosque of Sanaa, the manuscript was identified as a palimpsest Quran in 1981 as it is written on parchment and comprises two layers of text.

  9. Conservation and restoration of parchment - Wikipedia

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    Parchment manufacturing and properties. The making of parchment in the Netherlands. Parchment is the skin of an animal, usually sheep, calf or goat, which has been dehaired, processed with a lime solution and stretched under tension. The dried material is a thin membrane which is most commonly used as a writing surface, but can also be used to ...

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