Steven Avery
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requisite size. It varies considerably in thickness: and the
thicker leaves, which have generally preserved the writing
better than the thin ones, are inclined to a yellowish tint.
Many of the leaves are so thin that the writing from the
other side is sometimes so plainly visible as to become
confusing, and in a few cases the ink has eaten through the
vellum so as to leave holes. As a rule, however, the vellum
struck me as not quite so thin as that of the Codex Alexan-
drinus, and to have consequently suffered somewhat less
from erosion.
CARM
requisite size. It varies considerably in thickness: and the
thicker leaves, which have generally preserved the writing
better than the thin ones, are inclined to a yellowish tint.
Many of the leaves are so thin that the writing from the
other side is sometimes so plainly visible as to become
confusing, and in a few cases the ink has eaten through the
vellum so as to leave holes. As a rule, however, the vellum
struck me as not quite so thin as that of the Codex Alexan-
drinus, and to have consequently suffered somewhat less
from erosion.
CARM
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