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Foolscap folio is a traditional paper size used in Europe and the British Commonwealth before A4 paper. It refers to paper cut to 8 1⁄2 by 13 1⁄2 inches. A full sheet is actually 17 by 13 1⁄2 inches, and it was named after the fool's cap watermark commonly used on paper of these dimensions from the 15th century onwards. The earliest dated example was made in Germany in 1479. It remains a commonly used paper size in ring binders and files that hold A4 paper.

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Foolscap Folio

Foolscap folio is a traditional paper size used in Europe and the British Commonwealth before A4 paper. It refers to paper cut to 8 1⁄2 by 13 1⁄2 inches. A full sheet is actually 17 by 13 1⁄2 inches, and it was named after the fool's cap watermark commonly used on paper of these dimensions from the 15th century onwards. The earliest dated example was made in Germany in 1479. It remains a commonly used paper size in ring binders and files that hold A4 paper.

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Foolscap folio

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Foolscap folio (commonly contracted to foolscap or folio) is paper cut to the size of 8 1 2 13 1 2 inches (216
343 mm) (for normal writing paper, 13 8 in (330
200 mm)). This was a traditional paper size used in Europe and the British Commonwealth, before the adoption
of the international standard A4 paper.

[1] Mller, Lothar (2014). White Magic: The Age of Paper.


Cambridge: Polity Press. p. 173.
[2] Anon. Foolscap. The Free Dictionary. Farlex Inc. Retrieved 17 September 2009.

A full foolscap paper sheet is actually 17 13 1 2 inches


(432 343 mm) in size, and a folio sheet of any type is
half the standard sheet size or a subdivision of this into
halves, quarters and so on.

[3] Anon. Entry in the Dartford Holy Trinity parish register for Sir John Spielman (Spillman), 8 November 1626.
Medway: City Ark Document Gallery. Medway Council.
Retrieved 17 September 2009.

Foolscap was named after the fool's caps and bells


watermark commonly used from the fteenth century onwards on paper of these dimensions.[1][2] The earliest ex- 3 External links
ample of such paper that is rmly dated was made in Germany in 1479. Unsubstantiated anecdotes suggest that
THE COLLATION a gathering of scholarship from the
this watermark was introduced to England in 1580 by
Folger Library showing image of Foolscap folio waterJohn Spilman, a German who established a papermill at
mark
[3]
Dartford, Kent. Apocryphally, the Rump Parliament
substituted a fools cap for the royal arms as a watermark
on the paper used for the journals of parliament.
In Brazil, the 8 1 2 by 13 inches (215.9 mm 330.2 mm)
paper size is usually named Folio, and it is also sometimes
called Ofcio II, a reference to the 8 1 2 -by-14-inch (215.9
mm 355.6 mm) paper size (which is named Legal but
in Portuguese is better known as Ofcio).
In Venezuela, the 8 1 2 by 13 inches (215.9 mm 330.2
mm) paper size is named Ocio. While laws expressly
permit any paper size, public oces require all documents
to be presented in Ocio paper size.
Ring binders or lever arch les designed to hold Foolscap
folios are often used to hold A4 paper (210 297 mm, 8
1
4 11 3 4 in). The slightly larger size of such a binder
oers greater protection to the edges of the pages it contains.

See also
F4 (paper) this is sometimes called foolscap even
though the dimensions are not usually 8 1 2 by 13 1 2
inches (215.9 mm 342.9 mm).

Paper sizes
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