Paper Stocks in Western Medieval Manuscripts : Paper stock

Paper Stocks in Western Medieval Manuscripts

<p style='text-align: justify;'>A fragment of a copy of the year book for 14 Henry IV (1412-3), from the library of Anthony Gell (d. 1583), of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, and bencher of the Inner Temple. Baker notes that ‘Quod C. Heigham’ (f. 3v) is probably Clement Heigham (d. 1500) of Lavenham, Suffolk, who was ‘feoffe for Henry Strange of Lincoln’s Inn temp. Edward IV, and is perhaps the ‘Higham’ adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1457’. This ‘Higham’ also owned London, British Library, MS Harley 452. (CELM, pp. 644-5).</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>A mixed-media quire (ff. 1-11) made up of paper with an outer parchment bifolium. Each folio measures approximately 310 mm in height x 220 mm in width, and the sheets are folded in folio. This suggests that the original sheets had dimensions ranging between 300-315 mm in height x 420-460 mm in width, a format of paper known as Chancery, which was the most common size of paper in medieval England. The range of measurements depends on the precise dimensions of the original sheets before folding and the trimming of the folio before binding.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>The paper stock is marked by a bull head. One of the twin marks (f. 7) is the same as Briquet 14960, datable to 1439-40. </p><p style='text-align: justify;'>These images have been produced through MSI in order to capture physical details of the item.</p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Orietta Da Rold and Logan Rivers</p>