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 386
nsions are truly incredible; for in ll2ii and l:i*>2 we findcontracts of sales of two inches long by five inches wide, and in 1208 awill written on a piece of parchment of two inches by three and a half.It was by way of conqx?nsating for the great cost of parchment that opistho-graphic writing… … Fig. 283.—The Paper-Maker, drawn and engraved in the Sixteenth Century by J. Amman. intended. For instance, the leaves of parliamentary documents were nineinches and a half long by seven and a half wide ; those of the council,ten by eight; those of finance and of private contracts, twelve and a…
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