Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.14473

    Instrument for making parchment

    Date
    25 May 1664
    Creator
    Unknown, Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p167
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (page): 365mm
    width (page): 233mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Figures relating to an instrument to scrape the hide in order to make parchment. John Beale described the process of making parchment, which was read to the meeting of the Royal Society on 25 May 1664 and was ordered to be registered.

    This was copied from RBO/3/039. Other versions of these images can be found at Cl.P/3i/18/004-05 and MS/215/190.
    Object history
    At the meeting of the Royal Society on 25 May 1664, ‘Mr. Beal’s account of the art of making parchment was read, and ordered to be registered’ (Birch 1:428).
    Related fellows
    John Beale (1608 - 1687, British) , Clergyman
    Associated place
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