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Vellum ( Latin for the animals' wool hair) has two meanings:

A sort of parchment, a material for the pages of a book or codex, usually made from calf skin. See also: vellum parchment, Golden Fleece.
A manuscript or book written on such material.

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VellumVellum ( Latin for the animals' wool hair) has two meanings: A sort of parchment, a material for the pages of a book or codex, usually made from calf skin. See also: vellum parchment, Golden Fleece. A manuscript or book written on such material.

Vellum parchmentVellum was originally a translucent or opaque material produced from calfskin that had been soaked, limed and unhaired, and then dried at normal temperature under tension, usually on a wooden device called a stretching frame. Today, however, vellum is gen

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