In the 13th century, a monk made a practical decision about church property. Vellum was a luxury, a valuable asset, and his investment in a new prayer book required a source. He found an old Greek codex, its mathematical text seemingly irrelevant to his spiritual enterprise. With careful scraping, he erased the ink, seeing the recycled parchment as a success for his monasterys business. He was unaware he was destroying an irreplaceable piece of intellectual history. The development of his prayer

10K views · 91 reactions | Vellum has been used to record some of the most important events and laws in our country's history. It's a parchment type of material made from animal hides, but now Westminster could stop using it to save money. Paul Scoins has been to Buckinghamshire to meet the only vellum maker in the country | BBC Hampshire & Isle of Wight | Facebook