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'''Parchment''' is [[animal]] [[skin]] prepared to receive [[writing]]. Parchment is often used to mean any skin used for writing, although it strictly means only [[sheep]] or [[goat]]skin, while the term [[vellum]] means only [[calf]]skin.<ref>https://libwww.library.phila.gov/medievalman/glossary.cfm#m_q</ref>
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'''Parchment''' is [[animal]] [[skin]] prepared to receive [[writing]]. Parchment is often used to mean any skin used for writing, although it strictly means only [[sheep]] or [[goat]]skin, while the term [[vellum]] means only [[cattle|calf]]skin.<ref>https://libwww.library.phila.gov/medievalman/glossary.cfm#m_q</ref>
  
 
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Parchment is animal skin prepared to receive writing. Parchment is often used to mean any skin used for writing, although it strictly means only sheep or goatskin, while the term vellum means only calfskin.[1]

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