Do you have any resources or places to find resources on parchment and its ways? So that I may write the sexy historically accurate scribes more easily
here's a post i made earlier this month with some links to videos about parchment making and things. i think videos are a good source for this kind of thing bc it's the physicality of the parchment that people often screw up in books and it's something you really need to see if you can (and touch, if such an opportunity comes your way). there are lots more out there beyond what i shared in that post, including about things like ink making and drypoint ruling / setting up the page, etc, so just have a wander around the nerdy corners of youtube and see what's there
here's a post with some other resources
all my posts about parchment including pictures i've reblogged bc they illustrate things i've been talking about are tagged as "parchment problems". i will continue to post and reblog things and put it in that tag
unfortunately for all of youse, as i've noted a couple of times, the majority of my manuscript/parchment knowledge was not obtained from books but from personal experience, conversations with experts, and to some extent, classes i've attended. i've worked in libraries inc. in special collections, visited conservation workshops, chatted to conservators, handled MSs for research purposes, worked with digitised MSs for academic purposes, etc, so i've picked up a lot of things from that rather than from books and written sources that i can easily share!
this is unusual bc usually i have an extensive bibliography but like 90% of my sources for parchment knowledge are "Some Guy Told Me This" and the guy in question is, like, head of manuscripts at an academic library or the top expert at a conservation consortium or whatever, but also you just have my word for it?? so that's not super helpful haha