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It consists of 142 sheets of foolscap paper. The author's name does not appear in it. [1] Although the work is undated, a watermark dates the paper upon which it is written to 1829. [2] The textual material from which the manuscript is based is generally regarded to have been the work of William Macleod Bannatyne, Lord Bannatyne (died 1833). [3]
Although metric, based on the A4 paper size, and named to suggest that it is part of the official ISO 216 paper sizes, it is only a de facto standard. It is often referred to as (metric) "foolscap" or "folio" because of its similarity to the traditional foolscap folio size of 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in × 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (216 mm × 343 mm).
It also appears to draw inspiration from a foolscap map created in 1575 by the French mapmaker Jean de Fourmont. [2] There is wide speculation that it was created by members of a Christian sect called the Familists , which valued global viewpoints while stressing the importance of self-reflection. [ 3 ]
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Foolscap or fool’s cap may refer to: Foolscap folio, a paper size of 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 × 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (216 × 343 mm) Foolscap, a paper size of 17 × 13 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (432 × 343 mm) Foolscap, a book by Michael Malone; Fool’s cap, a cap with bells worn by court jesters
Paper size standards govern the size of sheets of paper used as writing paper, stationery, cards, and for some printed documents. The ISO 216 standard, which includes the commonly used A4 size, is the international standard for paper size.
For example, a quarto (from Latin quartÅ, ablative form of quartus, fourth [3]) historically was a book printed on sheets of paper folded in half twice, with the first fold at right angles to the second, to produce 4 leaves (or 8 pages), each leaf one fourth the size of the original sheet printed – note that a leaf refers to the single piece ...
The book is foolscap folio, and like all Mr Didsbury's productions, is well and correctly printed. All our varied forest trees and shrubs are minutely described and illustrated; the native and vulgar names are given, the properties and uses are set forth in popular language as well as in the ordinary scientific style.