@histodons Folded paper sheets ruled in early modern Europe. For letter writing activities, for administration, or for including your ideas into chapters of big books, or next to them - as in the highlighted part of the painting. The paper sheet was a mass artifact of the period, maybe THE most often produced artifact of the publishing, writing, and printing good old Europe. However, loose sheets were precious goods, easily damaged, burned, hard to collect over time. #PaperHistory
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