Davenport, Cyril, 1848-1941 · London : Constable · leaf 44
marked in some slight way so that theirorder might not be lost, and sent to the scribe to bewritten upon. The books count as folios because each original sheetonly forms two pages; the fact of their being arranged ingroups is accidental, and does not theoretically alter thesize of the book. For… … 32 THE BOOK: ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. on the hair side, and the scribe usually made his rulemarks with a blunt style to guide his writing on the hairside, so that on this side the ruled lines are slightlyindented, whereas on the flesh side they show as littleridges. This point is apparently…
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