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  2. Folio - Wikipedia

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    The title-page of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 Single folio from a large Qur'an, North Africa, 8th c. (Khalili Collection). The term "folio" (from Latin folium 'leaf' [1]) has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ...

  3. Book of Kells - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Kells ( Latin: Codex Cenannensis; Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais; Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illuminated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, [ 1] containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.

  4. Book size - Wikipedia

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    Traditional book sizes/formats used in English-speaking countries. Based on the 19-by-24-inch or 482.5-by-609.5-millimetre printing paper size, which equals two folio leaves, four quarto leaves, eight octavo leaves, etc. For comparison, common American letter size is shown in green. Books made by printing two pages of text on each side of a ...

  5. Book of Durrow - Wikipedia

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    The illumination of the book shows especially well the varied origins of the Insular style, and has been a focus for the intense art-historical discussion of the issue. One thing that is clear is that the artist was unused to representing the human figure; his main attempt, the Man symbol for Matthew, has been described as a "walking buckle". [7]

  6. Recto and verso - Wikipedia

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    Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper ( folium) in a bound item such as a codex, book, broadsheet, or pamphlet . In double-sided printing, each leaf has two pages – front and back. In modern books, the physical sheets of paper are stacked and folded in ...

  7. Folio Society - Wikipedia

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    Official website. foliosociety .com. The Folio Society is a London-based publisher, founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971. [1] [2] Formerly privately owned, [3] it operates as an employee ownership trust since 2021. It produces illustrated hardback editions of classic fiction and non-fiction books, poetry and children's titles.

  8. The Birds of America - Wikipedia

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    The Birds of America is a book by naturalist and painter John James Audubon, containing illustrations of a wide variety of birds of the United States. It was first published as a series in sections between 1827 and 1838, in Edinburgh and London. Not all of the specimens illustrated in the work were collected by Audubon himself; some were sent ...

  9. Vienna Genesis - Wikipedia

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    The illustration on folio 12v from the Vienna Genesis shows the story of Jacob Wrestling the Angel. Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well. The Vienna Genesis (Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod. theol. gr. 31), designated by siglum L (Ralphs), is an illuminated manuscript, probably produced in Syria in the first half of the 6th century.

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