How is papyrus different from parchment? Detailed answer

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How is papyrus different from parchment?

Papyrus is a marsh and river grass that grew in abundance at the mouth of the Nile. To make papyrus, the core of the stem of the papyrus plant was cut lengthwise into narrow long strips, laid on top of each other and placed under a large smooth stone, and then dried in the sun. The result was a smooth light yellow sheet, similar to paper, but fragile.

To write a large text on papyrus, one sheet was glued to another, and then this long written strip was attached at one end to a rod and rolled into a scroll. The scrolls were kept in special cases. The famous Library of Alexandria consisted of such scrolls.

At some point, the Library of Alexandria had a rival - the magnificent library of the city of Pergamum, the capital of the Roman province of Asia. To deprive Pergamon of writing material, papyrus was forbidden to be exported from Egypt. There are no new books in the Pergamon Library, because there is nothing to write them on. Then the masters of Pergamon suggested using animal skins for writing. The skins were cleaned, polished, bleached, stretched and cut into sheets of regular shape. A new material was obtained, which, in honor of the city of Pergamon, was called parchment.

A sheet of parchment was much stronger than papyrus, and besides, it could be folded in half and four times. So later they began to do it, thus obtaining a notebook (from the Greek word "tetra" - a quarter). With the advent of parchment, manuscripts took on the appearance of modern books. True, parchment was expensive, so only in the Middle Ages did parchment finally defeat papyrus, but soon it was replaced by paper.

Author: Cellarius E.Yu.

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