Preferred label

Quire        

Alternative label

gathering; signature; section        

Scope note

A gathering of substrates nested into a single unit, with one central fold in common.        

Parent concept

Bifolium       

uh-linked-data/concept/20

Related concept 

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT       

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

 Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/404