Printers at this time did not bind books, they merely supplied loose quires which the stationers or the owner could bind themselves.From theCambridge English Corpus
 At the end of thequire, on originally blank leaves, two scribes have added brief notes on indulgences and feasts, and an alphabetic divination (40).From theCambridge English Corpus
 The leaves may have formed part of the samequire, as is suggested by the text portions preserved on them.From theCambridge English Corpus
 There you would find tall piles of quires of future song anthologies, as well as an abundance of the latest song sheets.From theCambridge English Corpus
 The two bifolios are evidently the two innermost leaves of aquire.From theCambridge English Corpus
 Of present interest arequire6 (that for the oblation) andquire9 (the consecration).From theCambridge English Corpus
 The strips bear numbers relating to the foliation of the sixteenth-century quires from which they were extracted.From theCambridge English Corpus
 V) and continuing on two supplementary quires (fols. 184-94).From theCambridge English Corpus
 Corradini argues that this secondquirewas completed in two stages, to 822 and then to 1063.From theCambridge English Corpus
 He planned to copy these often messy notes fair and did so for the first four sessions of his tenure, presumably discarding the quires as he went.From theCambridge English Corpus
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