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Scratching the surface: the use of sheepskin parchment to deter textual erasure in early modern legal deeds

dc.contributor.authorDoherty, SP
dc.contributor.authorHenderson, S
dc.contributor.authorFiddyment, S
dc.contributor.authorFinch, J
dc.contributor.authorCollins, MJ
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-25T12:47:36Z
dc.date.issued2021-03-25
dc.description.abstractHistoric legal deeds are one of the most abundant resources in British archives, but also one of the most neglected. Despite the millions that survive, we know remarkably little about their manufacture, including the species of animal on which they were written. Here we present the species identification of 645 sixteenth–twentieth century skins via peptide mass fingerprinting (ZooMS), demonstrating the preferential use of sheepskin parchment. We argue that alongside their abundance and low cost, the use of sheepskins over those of other species was motivated by the increased visibility of fraudulent text erasure and modification afforded by the unique structure of their skin.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipArts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Research Council (ERC)en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 9, article 29en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s40494-021-00503-6
dc.identifier.grantnumber1489527en_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumber295729-CodeXen_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/125228
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSpringeren_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021. Open access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.en_GB
dc.subjectparchmenten_GB
dc.subjectmanuscriptsen_GB
dc.subjectproteomicsen_GB
dc.subjectbiocodicologyen_GB
dc.subjectsheepskinen_GB
dc.subjectlegal deedsen_GB
dc.titleScratching the surface: the use of sheepskin parchment to deter textual erasure in early modern legal deedsen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2021-03-25T12:47:36Z
exeter.article-number29en_GB
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from Springer via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.descriptionAvailability of data and materials: Additional file 1: Dataset S1—Sample information and species identification.en_GB
dc.identifier.eissn2050-7445
dc.identifier.journalHeritage Scienceen_GB
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-02-17
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-03-25
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2021-03-25T12:44:52Z
refterms.versionFCDVoR
refterms.dateFOA2021-03-25T12:48:26Z
refterms.panelCen_GB


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© The Author(s) 2021. Open access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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