Parchment

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Parchment is a material for the pages of a book or codex, made from fine calf skin, sheep skin or goat skin. Parchment is named after the city Pergamon where it was first invented. One sort of parchment is vellum.

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• Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Parchment" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchment, used under the GNU Free Documentation License