The parchments, from the year 960, preserved in a Diocesan Archive, are texts in tachygraphic Latin, a shorthand system of fast writing. They are still to be decoded, also because they are almost impossible to read.
For the restoration they were entrusted to the patient hands of Simonetta Rosatelli – read the article below which concerns:
Only through this care will we become aware of facts, relationships or other things of which we do not know so far and who knows, perhaps of other interpretations of the news – and perhaps of history. A long, tedious job but of great importance and preciousness.
I am a cook. I compare everything to food. The behavior of ingredients and the interaction of the human body with them is similar to the behavior of humans and the relationships between humans
Even parallels can be drawn between the ways of preserving food and the ways of preserving paper.
It had already happened to draw parallels between paper and food, between methods of preserving paper and food in history. With Prof Rosatelli we had studied the historical period between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and a conference was born. Below are the links on this blog of an event from 2015:
http://gigliocooking.blogspot.com/2015/09/restaurare-ristorare-evento-presso-la.html
http://gigliocooking.blogspot.com/2015/09/e-nato-quasi-per-caso.html
Paper and food have always gone hand in hand and it is not only GiglioCooking who says it.
The same event is reported on the website of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism:
We are made like paper: perishable.
When we’re gone, someone will hardly read the lines of our work and there our end or our eternity will be decided.