vellum

parchment made from calf or lamb skin
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vellum
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vellum

Summary

vellum ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (767 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • vellum's image is recorded as Magna Carta (British Library Cotton MS Augustus II.106).jpg[2].
  • vellum's image is recorded as Portolan by Jacobus Russus of Messina 1533.jpg[3].
  • vellum's made from material is recorded as skin[4].
  • vellum's made from material is recorded as calfskin[5].
  • vellum's subclass of is recorded as parchment[6].
  • vellum's has use is recorded as painting support[7].
  • vellum's has use is recorded as writing surface[8].
  • vellum's Commons category is recorded as Vellum[9].
  • vellum's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/07z2_[10].
  • vellum's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph342353[11].
  • vellum's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300011852[12].
  • vellum's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[13].
  • vellum's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[14].
  • vellum's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[15].
  • vellum's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/vellum[16].
  • vellum's different from is recorded as wove paper[17].
  • vellum's different from is recorded as parchment[18].
  • vellum's UNSPSC code is recorded as 14111502[19].
  • vellum's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00079691n[20].
  • vellum's Encyclopædia Universalis ID is recorded as velin[21].
  • vellum's Quora topic ID is recorded as Vellum[22].
  • vellum's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as vellum[23].
  • vellum's UK Parliament thesaurus ID is recorded as 423094[24].
  • vellum's LC and MARC vocabularies ID is recorded as mmaterial/vel[25].
  • vellum's Grove Art Online ID is recorded as T088541[26].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for vellum include Lebor na hUidre[27], a manuscript[28].

Why It Matters

vellum ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (767 views/month).[1] vellum has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] vellum is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for vellum include Lebor na hUidre[27], a manuscript[28].

References

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  19. [20] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] . Quora. wikidata.org.
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  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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