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bookfell
bookfell
English
Noun
bookfell (plural bookfells)
- A skin prepared for writing upon; a sheet of vellum or parchment; paper.
- A vellum or parchment manuscript.
- 1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Apuleius (Barbarus), Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos), Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England:
- Write this on a bookfell or parchment so long that it may embrace the head on the outside, and hang it on the neck of the man who needs it; it will soon be well with him.
- 1878, George Stephens, Thunor the Thunderer:
- I cannot refer to any facsimile of this bookfell.
- 1866, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Apuleius (Barbarus), Dioscorides Pedanius (of Anazarbos), Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England: