Sentences with phrase «calfskin pages»
St. John's decided to produce a Bible with all the trappings of the greatest editions of the past — using gold leaf, calfskin pages, quill pens and so on.
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At the symposium, Matthew Teasdale, a postdoc in Dan Bradley's lab at Trinity College in Dublin, reported on the biology of another valuable text: the York Gospels, thought to have been written around 990 C.E. DNA from this book's eraser shavings showed that, aside from some sheep, its pages were mostly calfskin — mainly from female calves, which was unexpected because cows were usually allowed to grow up to bear offspring.