Illustration 3, MMM

A monk inspecting a sheet of parchment which he is buying from a parchment-maker, as shown in an initial in a thirteenth-century German manuscript. In the background is the craftsman's curved paring-knife and a skin stretched over its wooden frame

Copenhagen, Royal Library. Ms. 4, 2^o f. 183v. After Christopher De Hamel, Medieval Craftsmen. Scribes and Illuminators (London: British Museum Press, 1992), pic. 8, p. 13.