Kanzleifolio
English translation: Chancery paper
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| 16:42 Jan 8, 2018 |
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| German to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - History / Old Manuscript (15th century) | |||||||
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peer agreement (net): +3Chancery paper Explanation: Duden gives: Kanzleipapier: weißes, holzfreies Papier in bestimmtem Format, wie es in einer Kanzlei verwendet wird https://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Kanzleipapier Paper historian Neil Harris suggests that Chancery, or a similarly sized sheet, accounted for 90% of the paper produced after 1500 in Europe. There are a number of reasons why this makes sense from the papermaker's standpoint: The full sheet folded in half gives an agreeable folio size book; https://book.grad.uiowa.edu/store/handmade-paper/chancery Reference: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Kanzleipapier Reference: http://book.grad.uiowa.edu/store/handmade-paper/chancery |
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