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I. "Nethermere II"
Paper A
Dimensions: 200 mm long, 162.5 mm wide.
Lines: 21, at different angles. The lines are an average of 8.5 mm apart. The 'front' top margin slopes left-right from 20 to 22 mm, whilst the 'back' top margin slopes left-right from 20-19. The bottom margin slopes too, but less consistently, varying between 8.5 and 10 mm in width. If the front of one page is placed against the back of another, so that they meet along the torn edges which had originally been joined, the top margin slopes consistently across both pages from 22 mm to 19 mm. This fact provides a useful and consistent check as to the identity of what appears to be a Paper A page, if the side-tears cannot be shown to match those of another page.
Calendaring: Chain-and-wire
Watermark: "Boot's Cash Stationers"
Paper B
Dimensions: 202 mm long, 163 mm wide.
Lines: 21, at different angles, and an average of 8.5 mm apart. The front top margin slopes 19-20 mm, the back top 21-20, so the same matching as for Paper A can be done. The bottom margin is larger than for Paper A, varying between 10 and 11 mm in width. The lines are a very pale blue; this is the distinguishing feature of
Paper B.
Calendaring: Chain-and-wire
Watermark: "Boot's Cash Stationers"
Paper C
Dimensions: 202 mm long, 161 mm wide.
Lines: 20, an average of 8.5 mm apart. The front top margin slopes 20-21 mm, the back top 21-20. The bottom margin is between 14 and 15 mm. The lines are noticeably finer than those of Papers A and B.
Calendaring: Chain-and-wire
Watermark: None
Paper D
Dimensions: 202 mm long, 162 mm wide.
Lines: 20, an average of 8.5 mm apart. The top margin is consistently 25 mm wide, so distinguishing this paper easily from Paper C. The bottom margin is between 10 and 11 mm. The lines are as fine as with Paper C.
Calendaring: Chain-and-wire
Watermark: None
Paper E
Dimensions: 201 mm long, 162 mm wide.
Lines: 20, an average of 8 mm apart. The front top margin slopes 28-29 mm; the back top margin slopes 29.5-29 mm. The bottom margin varies between 10 and 11 mm.
Calendaring: None
Watermark: A complex oval design reading: "HIERATICA (a vegetable Parchment) I. S & C."
Paper F
Dimensions: 200 mm long, 162.5 mm wide.
Lines: 21, an average of 8.5 mm apart. The first pages of this paper type in the manuscript have a very noticeable slope to their top and bottom margins. 'Front' and 'back' sides can be matched up with pages elsewhere in a given quire. For example page 577 measures as follows:
| Front (text) | Back (blank) | |
| Top margin: | 18.5 to 20 mm | 20 to 17.5 mm |
| Bottom margin: | 10 to 9 mm | 9 to 11 mm |
| Page 586 (whose torn edge and watermark matches page 577) measures: | ||
| Top margin: | 17.5 to 16 mm | 18 to 18.5 mm |
| Bottom margin: | 11 to 13 mm | 12 to 10 mm |
If these pages are placed together as above with Paper A, then the front side of page 577 lines up with the back of page 586, and vice-versa. However as Part III progresses this slope to the lines becomes increasingly less noticeable, until in the last quires the pages are indistinguishable from Paper A pages (a front top margin slope of 20-21 mm, and a back top margin of 20-19 mm).
Calendaring: Chain-and-wire
Watermark: "Boot's Cash Stationers"
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