Question

Medieval manuscripts are mostly written on parchment, animal skin that had to be prepared carefully to be written on. This had a number of consequences. Click on all that apply!

-Writing material was extremely expensive and often re-used.
-Palimpsests
-Since the production of parchment was slow and laborious, what was written down on parchment was carefully selected as worthy of preservation.
-Since parchment ages much more slowly than paper, manuscripts written on parchment preserve writing from the past for which no records written on paper are available anymore.

Answer 1

All of them apply:

- Writing material was extremely expensive and often re-used.

- Palimpsests

- Since the production of parchment was slow and laborious, what was written down on parchment was carefully selected as worthy of preservation.

- Since parchment ages much more slowly than paper, manuscripts written on parchment preserve writing from the past for which no records written on paper are available anymore.