Jorge Stolfi wrote: > > 2585. In folio. Ein _philosophisch_ alt geschriben buch mit > I suppose that the phrase "in folio" means that the book was made > from whole sheets of vellum, folded only once (the binding fold). > Can we draw any conclusion from this note about the size of item 2585? > Is the VMs "in folio", "in quarto", or what? Today I looked up the term "in folio" in an ethym. Dictionairy and found it had 2 meanings before 17th Century: - in single sheets - in sheets folded once Later it had the meaning of a big sheet folded into the size of a Foliant hence the phrase in folio b ecame a size (roughly the modern DIN A4). Books of this size where called foliants (after 17th century). BTW.: had someone compared the german "Suetterlin" script with Voynich script? Cheers Claus Anders
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