Entertainment / Literature / Quire: A collection of individual leaves sewn together, usually containing between four and twelve leaves per quire. This 'gathering' or 'booklet' of individual pages would then be sewn into the larger collection of pages to make the entire book. In manuscripts written after 1400, the quires are often systematically labeled in order to help the bookbinder place them in the correct order. They provide important evidence for the history of specific manuscripts. Missing pages cut out of a quire show modern scholars evidence of ancient censorship, and the markings of the quire can show that books have been rebound or taken apart and 'recycled' into new books.
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