Thousands of parchments available online
michele casanova
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Thinking it might be a useful source of inspiration, I'd like to highlight a collection of 3651 parchments made available online by the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt (ULB Halle), which purchased them in the late 19th century for paleography teaching purposes. These are parchments of Italian origin with dates from the 10th century to the 18th century.
The image resolution is not perfect, but I think it is acceptable.
The images are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0).
The image resolution is not perfect, but I think it is acceptable.
The images are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0).

Initial text of a Milanese parchment from 1350 (ULB Halle, CC BY 4.0, source): «Nos Iohannes Dei gratia archiepiscopus et generalis dominus Mediolani etc.»
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A great resource. Thank you for sharing.1
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