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One medieval manuscript could require hundreds of animals
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Before cheap paper was widely available, texts were written on vellum, which is essentially just highly processed animal skin. Creating a single large, illuminated manuscript literally required slaughtering hundreds of sheep or calves, making early book publishing one of the most aggressively carnivorous industries in existence.
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