Quatrefoil on shield with letter B, over scroll containing name ‘NICOLAS LEBE’, a papermaker of Troyes, France.

Watermark Quatrefoil on shield with letter B, over scroll containing name ‘NICOLAS LEBE’, a papermaker of Troyes, France.
Date Late 16th / early 17th century:  cf. Briquet 8079; Gravell §§ 629, 1065, 1714; occurs in MSS of works by Philip Sidney, John Harington and Edmund Campion
Location of use Ireland
Dimensions 59 mm x 17 mm
Chain-lines 17]-23-18-20-22-21-21-20-20-[5; horizontal
Position centred on line 6, inner margin
Process Canon EOS, backlighting; Photoshop
Source RIA MS 23 N 29 (467) [composite manuscript] f. 57, fragment containing aphorisms of Hippocrates.
Repository Royal Irish Academy, Dublin