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Finally, by sewing strips of parchment together, rolls (rotuli) were made similar to those formed of papyrus (e.g. Hebrew Pentateuch of Brussels, ninth century, on fifty-seven sewn skins, forty yards in length; "rolls of the dead", used by the associations of prayer for the dead in the abbeys; administrative and financial rolls used especially in England to transcribe the decrees of Parliament, etc.)
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Renaissance the base of which shows the Moorish and Gothic foils and the knob, the Gothic rotuli.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Jn tertio Injlrumento di&i rotuli con~ tinetur, quod co!
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_rotuli_ a large part of the facts already made, so that the same incident, while coming solely from Brother Leo, could be presented under two different forms, according as it would be copied from the book or the _rotuli_.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893
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Its revenues, according to the rotuli, called the king's books, which were made up in the reign of Henry VIII., were valued at £ 3, 2s. 8d. per annum. "[
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_ "Conrad di Offidia copied, then, both the book of Brother Leo and his _rotuli_; he added to it certain oral information (_Arbor, vit.cruc. _, lib. v., cap. 3), and so perhaps composed the collection so often cited by the
Life of St. Francis of Assisi Paul Sabatier 1893
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Of these are F. MICHEL'S _Roles Gascons_, vol. i., published in the F.ench government series of _Documents Inédits sur l'Histoire de F.ance_ (1885), including a "fragmentum rotuli
The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892
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Warr. circa finem rotuli, et hoc maxime, si primus dominus capitalis, et primus feoffator, ceperit homagium et servitium assignati. "
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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