This parchment deed was comprised of two separate pages and an accompanying wax seal, housed in a wooden box. 

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On arrival the parchment was too stiff to open without forcing and damaging the document, which meant none of the text could be read. 

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The two sheets were gently unrolled and wights placed at strategic points to help flattening. They were then lightly humidified within a chamber which allowed the material to relax and be unrolled. The sheets were then dried under tension to ensure the flat plane would be maintained.

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Large losses in both sheets were infilled and toned with an imitation parchment paper which exhibits similar visual and structural properties to parchment itself, meaning that it would react in a similar way to this sensitive material and not incur further deformations.