A monk inspecting a sheet of parchment which he is
buying from a parchment-maker, as shown in an initial in a thirteenth-century
German manuscript. In the background is the craftsman's curved paring-knife
and a skin stretched over its wooden frame
Copenhagen, Royal Library. Ms. 4, 2o f. 183v.
After Christopher De Hamel, Medieval Craftsmen. Scribes and Illuminators
(London: British Museum Press, 1992), pic. 8, p. 13.