The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 484
the practice of writing onthe back as well as the front of the page ; but it was not till the sixteenthcentury that this custom became general. Judicial acts, composed sometimes of many skins sewed together, camein time to form rolls of twenty feet in length; to such extreme pro-portions did they… … Fig. 33i.-Seal of the King of La Basocbe. (This title was suppressed, with all its prerogatives, by Henry HI.) will written on a piece of parchment of two inches by three and a half.It was by way of compensating for the great cost of parchment that opistho-graphic writing was adopted and rolls were…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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