Elementary instruction in the art of illuminating and missal painting on vellum : a guide to modern illuminators, with illustrations in outline as copies for the student (1860)
Laurent de Lara, D. (David), author · London : Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts · leaf 84
ON PREPARING THE VELLUM. HE vellum (which should be the best Italian, and prepared from the kid), is of peculiarly fine and white texture, different from parchment both in sub- stance and quality. I import it myself, and previously prepare it for the artist, so that both sides are equally good to…
Illumination of books and manuscripts
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public domain (published before 1931). Free to use for anything.
