Sentence examples for leaves of parchment from inspiring English sources

Eventually the bundled tablets were replaced with leaves of parchment and thus, probably, was born the codex.

The two well-preserved leaves of parchment, closely written in an elegant script, have been radiocarbon-dated to between AD568 and AD645, a result regarded by the scientists who tested it at Oxford as near certain – 95.4% accurate.

So important was this continuity that the Athenians supposedly raised a statue to a certain Phillatius, who had invented a glue for fastening together leaves of parchment or papyrus.22 Yet even the continuous scroll, while making the reader's task easier, would not have helped a great deal in disentangling the clusters of sense.

He wrote that in 1844, during his first visit to the Saint Catherine's Monastery, he saw some leaves of parchment in a waste-basket.

It has little to do with Independence Hall, where powdered aristocrats have left a piece of parchment inscribed with freedom.

Set the leaves out on an extra section of parchment or greaseproof paper.

We made cochinita pibil — soft pork oozing citrus-and-achiote-spiced juices inside a wrapping of banana leaves roasted parchment dry — and rajas con crema and arroz verde, and there was a gorgeously garish birthday cake from a Mexican bakery in Sunset Park, with white, orange, and pink frosting, and fruit slices in a glazed ring on top.

The unidentified man left a message on a piece of parchment paper.

Patapon is also a celebration of the PSP's still-gorgeous widescreen, its world map a roll of parchment unfurling from left to right.

However, the layer of parchment containing the Sophoclean text has been scraped off in order to recycle the leaves.

I was the colour of parchment.