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pecia|ˈpiːsɪə|
Pl. peciæ, pecie, pecias.
[a. med.L. pecia piece n.]
A gathering of a manuscript, usu. a gathering of four leaves. pecia system, a system of copying pecia by pecia.
1908H. Hall Stud. in Eng. Official Hist. Documents iii. 380 A rarer term [in Palæography] occurs in the use of peciae to denote the component parts of a file of loose documents. 1912E. M. Thompson Introd. Gr. & Lat. Palaeogr. 68 A survival of the ancient method of calculating [sc. the remuneration of scribes] has been found in the practice..in the middle ages, of paying by the pecia of sixteen columns, each of sixty-two lines with thirty-two letters to the line. 1930R. Steele in Library XI. 230 The pecia is a unit, devised mainly for estimating the rate of payment to the copyist, which seems to have arisen in the University of Bologna early in the thirteenth century. 1934Little & Pelster Oxford Theol. 1282–1302 i. v. 56 (heading) The pecia and some characteristics of Oxford scholastic manuscripts. Ibid. 57 The pecia is originally, according to the researches of Savigny and Destrez, a piece of parchment which when folded contains two sheets, i.e. 4 leaves on 8 pages. As copyists were frequently paid according to the number of pecie which they had written, the beginning of a new pecia in the original examples was not infrequently marked in the copies by a p or pea with the corresponding numeral. 1935Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Dec. 858/3 The pecia was the loose quire, generally of four folios or eight pages, lent out by an approved ‘stationer’ to be copied. 1958C. H. Talbot in Wormald & Wright Eng. Library before 1700 iv. 67 The unit of their [sc. the university scribes'] work was the pecia, a technical term (borrowed no doubt from the tanners and parchment makers) designating a sheep-skin which could be treated for writing on. Ibid. 68 The size of the pecia appears to have differed somewhat in the manuscripts we know, but the general conclusion seems to be that it was a sextern. 1963R. A. B. Mynors Catal. MSS. Balliol Coll. 43 The care with which it is written and its peciae are marked might suggest that it was intended to be kept..as a standard copy. 1964G. Pollard in Beiträge zum Berufsbeurusstsein des Mittelalterlichen Menschen (Miscellanea Mediaevalia III) 338 (heading) The pecia system. 1972E. J. Dobson Eng. Text of Ancrene Riwle p. x, It must have been one of two copies made simultaneously from a single exemplar by a form of the pecia system. 1976A. G. Judy Kilwardby's De Ortu Scientiarum p. xxi, There would have been exactly eighteen pecias in this copy. |