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Quire

A unit equivalent to 24 sheets of paper.

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At the time of Nero's copying, around the end of the twelfth and the beginning of the thirteenth century, quire structure was moving toward standardization; in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries sexternios, or quires of six bifolia, became a much more common arrangement.

At Work in the Anchorhold and Beyond: A Codicological Study of London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A.xiv

Consider also that collation of our Vergil with paper copies shows the vellum settings differ in a (the entire first quire), e2|7, and X4|5.

Shake-Speares: on the typography of blank pages / Laksmi Cohen-MacGregor

(3) Booklet 3 = quires 7-12, but the first of these might be construed as an independent booklet: as elsewhere in the manuscript, Dygon began the text, here the single item 2, and wrote all of the first quire before surrendering the copying to a second scribe.

Producing Magdalen College MS lat. 93

Evidently he became aware that some text, perhaps a quire of eight leaves, was missing in his exemplar.

A new version of Wyclif's 'Sermones quadraginta.' (preacher John Wyclif)

The quires themselves appear to have been prepared one at a time.

The format of Bibliotheque Nationale MS lat. 8824: the Paris Psalter

* short or long terminal quires (the Royal MS was persistently produced in twelve-leaf units): short quires conclude Booklets 1, 4, 7, 9, and 10; a long quire concludes Booklet 3 (and Booklet 13 was deliberately created as an "oversized" quire to handle possible extensions).

"Classicising Friars," Miscellaneous Transmission, and MS Royal 7 C.i

The second portion of this manuscript showing Shirleian influence immediately follows this, in the first several quires of Part 3 (which altogether comprises fols 33-[119.sup.v]), the first four quires being written by scribe C with only a single folio, the first of the fourth quire, by scribe B.

John Shirley's Heirs

This observation may well imply that this book "began small," that M had begun producing for private consultation a sequence of loose quires with some texts of personal interest.

Making miscellaneous manuscripts in fifteenth-century England: the case of Sloane 2275

Quires from both the thirteenth-century and the fifteenth-century sections also show pricking marks at the edge of their outer vertical leaves, while all the gatherings are approximately the same size and shape.

Female readers, passion devotion, and the history of MS Royal 17 A. xxvii

1459 to 1461 Sanvito began to sign quires with letters of the alphabet (a system found in late Antique and Carolingian manuscripts) rather than using catchwords.

A. C. De La Mare and Laura Nuvoloni: Bartolomeo Sanvito: The Life and Work of a Renaissance Scribe

Indeed, the two scribes contributed independent portions to a third book, British Library, Harley MS 4196, where scribe G copied quires 18-21 and scribe R quires 27-34.