Basics: Latin Paleography
Review Terms for the Form and Layout of the Manuscript Book
Exercise 3: Terms for parts of the manuscript book
One parchment sheet folded in half to make two leaves is called
- a folio
- a bifolium
- a quire
b. a bifolium
Exercise 4: What kind of ruling?
Explore the manuscript page below. Can you tell what kind of ruling it has?
If you read Latin and would like to try reading from manuscripts in the units that follow, go to the Transcription Basics lesson to learn the conventions of representing manuscript text in modern form. Otherwise, go directly to the Classical Antiquity Paleography lesson to learn about the scripts used in the Roman world.