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At an unknown later time, someone copied the text from papyrus to animal-skin parchment.
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Considering that the books are written on animal-skin parchment and embellished with gold, silver, and precious pigments, it is mind-boggling to consider the cost of just the raw materials that were necessary, let alone the time required to add the handwritten text and carefully-crafted illustrations.
Elizabeth Morrison: A Getty Curator Discusses Manuscripts, France, And The Middle Ages: Imagining The Past Elizabeth Morrison 2011
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Considering that the books are written on animal-skin parchment and embellished with gold, silver, and precious pigments, it is mind-boggling to consider the cost of just the raw materials that were necessary, let alone the time required to add the handwritten text and carefully-crafted illustrations.
Elizabeth Morrison: A Getty Curator Discusses Manuscripts, France, And The Middle Ages: Imagining The Past Elizabeth Morrison 2011
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Considering that the books are written on animal-skin parchment and embellished with gold, silver, and precious pigments, it is mind-boggling to consider the cost of just the raw materials that were necessary, let alone the time required to add the handwritten text and carefully-crafted illustrations.
Elizabeth Morrison: A Getty Curator Discusses Manuscripts, France, And The Middle Ages: Imagining The Past Elizabeth Morrison 2011
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For the W, Ms. Sunshine hunted antique shops for midcentury artifacts and picked out accent details such as animal-skin throw rugs and grass cloth wall covering.
'Furnished' Gets New Meaning at W Tower Josh Barbanel 2012
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Considering that the books are written on animal-skin parchment and embellished with gold, silver, and precious pigments, it is mind-boggling to consider the cost of just the raw materials that were necessary, let alone the time required to add the handwritten text and carefully-crafted illustrations.
Elizabeth Morrison: A Getty Curator Discusses Manuscripts, France, And The Middle Ages: Imagining The Past Elizabeth Morrison 2011
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Have fun with oxford-inspired booties, patent-leather pumps, peep-toed Mary Janes and tastefully colored totes and animal-skin satchels faux if you prefer!
You’re Better Than Your Job Search Marc Cenedella 2010
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Taanda was a typical white, intelligent, voluptuous, scantily-clad babe in an animal-skin bikini, with the ability to communicate with jungle beasts or birds, and ever wise to the ways of cruel men.
Taanda in "Jungle Vengeance/Death Wears the Jungle Crown" (Avon; 1951) Chuck Wells 2010
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Part boy's adventure story, part geographical history, the book describes his warm animal-skin clothes "made the Eskimo way," his hand-built snow houses and his eventual marriage to an Inupiat woman.
Five Best 2010
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We featured animal-skin bound books during the Snakes on a Plane craze last summer, so I knew these books existed, but I was certainly awe-struck to find this one hiding in a box among other poetry books.
Times-Colonist Book Sale in . . . Snakeskin? « Reading Copy 2007
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