The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 385
of our books at the present day have their originin the sizes of the parchment in olden times. The entire skin of the animal,cut square and folded in two, represented the folio, which, moreover, variedin length and breadth ; and we have every reason to suppose that paper, fromthe day it was… … Fig. 282.—Seal of the Roi de la Basoche. (This title was suppressed, with all its prerogatives, bj Henry III.) employment. Among the ancients, who wrote onl}^ on one side of theparchment, the skins were cut in bands joined together so as to form volumesor rolls, which were unrolled as their…
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