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 387
rely replaced it (Fig. 283) ; for if less durable, it had the great 326 PARCHMENT AND PAPER, advantage of costing much less. Formerly nothing but the ancient papyrusof Eo-ypt was known, and it was made use of concurrently with parchmenttill there was brought into Europe, towards the tenth century,… … Fig. 284.—Water-Marks on Paper, from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century. Actually, this paper was at first of a very inferior quality, coarse,spong3% dull, and subject to the attacks of damp and worms ; so much sothat the Emperor Frederick 11. issued, in 1221, an order declaring null andvoid…
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