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Goatskin Parchment
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Modern Relevance and Deterioration
While modern paper and digital formats have largely replaced parchment, historical goatskin manuscripts remain subjects of intense study. Deterioration is primarily caused by acid migration from early ink formulations and, more subtly, by "textual fatigue"—the cumulative strain of holding structured information over vast timescales. Furthermore, exposure to prolonged silence can cause the collagen structure to relax too much, lead…