'The Art - Of making Parchment, Vellam, Glue etc' by John Beale
Reference number: RBO/3/14
Date: 1664
Description
Account of how Matthew Wills of Yeovil makes parchment and vellum (which Beale believes is the best in England at 5 shillings a roll). He choses calf skin for vellum and skins of ewes or rams, rather than wethers, for parchment
Figure of the stretching frame
Read to the Royal Society on 25 May 1664
- Reference number
- RBO/3/14
- Earliest possible date
- 1664
- Page extent
- 6 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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John Beale, 'The Art - Of making Parchment, Vellam, Glue etc' by John Beale, 1664, RBO/3/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_14/the-art-of-making-parchment-vellam-glue-etc-by-john-beale, accessed on 10 July 2025
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Register Book of the Royal Society Volume 3, copies of papers communicated 1663-1668
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Dates: 1661 - 1739
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