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 486
ty, coarse,^POgy» dull, and subject to the attacks of damp and worms; so much sothat the Emperor Frederick II. issued, in 1221, an order declaring null and PARCHMENT AND PAPER. 421 void all documents written on it, and fixing the term at two years by whichall were to be transcribed on parchment.… … Fig. HI.—Water-Marks on Paper, from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century. assertions and the testimonies on this point are so contradictory. Somethink that the paper was brought from the East by the Spanish Saracens;others say it came from China ; these affirm it has been employed sincethe tenth…
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