Purple Parchment

Purple parchment is one of the most valuable and expensive writing materials from antiquity and the Middle Ages. The purple for coloring the parchment folios is obtained from the glands of purple snails and has to be employed in a lengthy and costly coloring process. Gold or silver ink is employed to write on it.

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WHERE? In our store in Regensburg's Old Town.

We have been running a specialist store for facsimiles for nearly 15 years in Regensburg's Old Town, just opposite the "Schottenportal" of the Romanesque Scots Monastery of St. Jacob at Jakobstraße 6.