parchmentier

plural parchmentiers

1. rareSynonym of parchmenter.

   Some book history publications conventionally default to “he/him” pronouns for all medieval bookmakers, arguing that this is good practice because the majority of parchmentiers, scribes, and illuminators were probably men.

   2022, Bridget Whearty, “A Few Notes on Word Choice”, in Digital Codicology: Medieval Books and Modern Labor, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, introduction (Embodied Books, Disembodied Labors)

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   [William H.] Moore says the tax rolls of Philip the Fair in 1215 showed streets of Paris named for writers, illuminators and dealers in parchment. “The ‘parchmentiers’ all lived near the walls of the city, maybe to avoid the king’s taxes on sheepskins,” Moore quips.

   1976 July 28, Warren Hughes, “Conejo calligrapher pens a fine line”, in News Chronicle, volume XXII, number 49, Thousand Oaks, Calif., →OCLC, page 33, column 6

   |> Caledonia is what you might call the Northern region, centred on Perth I |> think. They have tried to make 4regions. East is Edinburgh, West is |> Glasgow, South is Borders and North... What a mess. They coulda taken a leaf out of the Irish book and made them Dalriada, Bernicia, Cumbria and ... Caledonia... ? Oh well. ---------------- Bill, (formerly parchmentier to the Lord Lyon of Scotland.)

   1997 September 11, Bill Taylor, “European Cup preview.”, in rec.sport.rugby.union (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 Mar 2026

   The brevigerulus should not have allowed representatives from the religious houses to write on the verso; instead, he should have stitched—or commissioned a parchmentier to stitch—a fourth membrane to the roll, but he failed to do this.

   2024, Kathryn M[argaret] Rudy, “Remembering John Hotham, bishop of Ely”, in Touching Parchment: How Medieval Users Rubbed, Handled, and Kissed Their Manuscripts: Volume 2: Social Encounters with the Book, volume 2 (Social Encounters with the Book), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Open Book Publishers, →ISBN, chapter 5 (Touching Death), page 291

   Synonyms: parchmenter