parchment scroll
Rolled antique writing
A parchment scroll is a roll of animal-skin writing material, typically sheepskin or goatskin prepared for ink.
Before bound books, scrolls were the standard format for documents and literary works.
The phrase now evokes antiquity, appearing in fantasy settings and historical references: The wizard unrolled the parchment scroll.
- inkWriting fluid
- vellumPrepared calfskin for writing
- quillFeather used for writing
- rollList of names
- rolled upWound into a tube
manuscript · wax seal · seal · scribe · papyrus · ancient text · scriptorium · charter · royal decree · cartouche · illuminated manuscript · decree · wax · proclamation · palimpsest · colophon · antiquity · old world
- PurimPurim, Esther, Mordecai, Haman, hamantaschen
- scrollshandscroll, makimono, Dead Sea Scrolls
- textual criticismcritical apparatus, collation, emendation, recension, variant
- sacred textsBible, Vedas, Quran, Upanishads, Torah
- Crusade relicsholy relic, True Cross, Holy Grail, reliquary
parchment scrollcodex
Ancient bound manuscript
paperback · bound volume · ring binder · spiral notebook · pamphlet
parchment scrolle-book
Downloadable text file
PDF · database · cloud storage · hard drive · USB drive
parchment scrollstone tablet
Inscribed flat rock
clay tablet · plastic sheet · metal plate · silicon chip · papyrus scroll