RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Paper Terms

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Mill reams
Scope Note
Use for handmade papers to designate "two grades of the same paper ... 18 quires of insides or perfect paper, each quire containing 24 sheets, and two quires of outsides or inferior, broken, or damaged paper, of only 20 sheets each, one on top and one on the bottom, making a total of 472"; Labarre, 222.
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