The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 509
ared, two feet two inches by one foot eight inches indiameter. But while the use of parchment was still strictly employed in thechancellors offices and the tribunals, where the basoche (a brotherhood oflawyers of all grades) considered it as one of their most lucrative privileges(Fig. 331), it had… … Fig. 332.—The Papei-Maker, drawn and engraved in the Sixteenth Century by J. Amman. advantage of costing much less. Formerly nothing but the ancient papyrusof Egypt was known, and it was made use of concurrently with parchmenttill there was brought into Europe, towards the tenth century, cotton…
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