The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 491
ared, two feet two incbes by one foot eigbt incbes indiameter. But wbile tbe use of parcbment was still strictly employed in tbechancellors offices and tbe tribunals, wbere tbe basoche (a brotberbood oflawyers of ail grades) considered it as one of tbeir most lucrative privilèges(Fig. 331), it bad… … Fig. 332.—The Papei -Maker, drawn and engraved in the Sixteenth Century by J. Amman. advantage of costing mucb less. Formerly notbing but tbe ancient pap3nnisof Egypt was known, and it was made use of concurrently witb parcbmenttill tbere was brougbt into Europe, towards tbe tentb century, cotton…
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