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arctic-hands · 4 months

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You ever be totally immersed in a story and then you come across a line about a subject and you realize you know more about this subject than the author and what the author wrote down was completely wrong and it's not even that the author didn't do research so much as the author didn't even think this was something that even needed to be researched? And it drives you absolute cuckoo bananas?

#pretty sure vellum is pretty flame resistant since it's leather and not paper #why are you doing this to me Phong Nguyen #also I'm less clear on this point I'll have to look up the history of manuscripts but did first century Vietnam even have vellum books?#like Asia had access to tree paper well before Europe did i think parchment and vellum were European in nature #after the decline of the papyrus trade following the collapse of the Roman empire #and needing something that was more durable in wetter climates than the Mediterranean anyway #i know europe got tree paper from China (possibly via Türkiye? idr) but i don't know if europe exported vellum and parchment #given the advent of tree fiber paper in Asia it doesn't seem like there'd be much need for vellum manuscripts in 1 C.E Vietnam #*first century C.E not 1 C.E #wait a minute #did EUROPE even have vellum by First Century C.E??#i.. i have to go look this up now wtf...

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