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Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars.
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"Joh. Amos Commenii Orbis sensualium pictus, hoc est, Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, pictura & nomenclatura Joh. Amos Commenius's Visible world, or, A picture and nomenclature of all the chief things that are in the world, and of mens employments therein / a work newly written by the author in Latine and High-Dutch ... ; & translated into English by Charles Hoole ... for the use of young Latine-scholars." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34111.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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Veteres utebantur Tabulis faginis, 1. aut Foliis 2. ut & Libris 3. Arborum, praesertim arbusculae Aegyptiae, cui nomen erat Papyrus.
Nunc, est in usu Charta, quem Chartopaeus, in molâ papyraceâ, 4. conficit è linteis vetu∣stis, 5. in pulmentum contusis, 6. quod, Normulis haustum, 7. diducit in plagulas, 8. aërique exponit, ut siccentur.
Harum XXV. faciunt Scapum, 9. XX. Scapi Volumen minus, 10. horum X. Volumen majus. 11.
Diu duraturum, scribitur in Membranâ. 12.
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Paper.
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The ancients used Beech-Bords, 1. or Leaves 2. as alss Barks 3. of Trees, especially of an Egyptian shrub, which was called Papyrus.
Now Paper is in use, which the Paper-maker maketh in a Paper-mill, 4. of Linnen-rags, 5. stamped to Mash, 6. which being taken up in Frames, 7. he spreadeth into Sheets, 8. and setteth them in the air that they may be dried.
Twenty five of these make a quire, 9. twenty quires a Ream, 10. and ten of these a Bale of Paper. 11.
That which is to last long is written in Parchment. 12.