Every two years, the Michigan Humanities program picks a book “to connect Michigan residents by deepening readers’ understanding of our state, our society, and our humanity,” Parchment ...

Using CT scanning on 16th-century books, researchers uncovered bits of parchment salvaged from handwritten manuscripts. By Katherine Kornei Even in medieval times, recycling was in vogue ...

The Codex Sassoon' is a leather-bound, handwritten parchment book, and radiocarbon dating estimates it was created between the years 880 and 960. Its writing style also suggests its creator was an ...