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Information and Ideas practice question
Most of the manuscripts in the collection were copied on parchment, which was durable but costly. A handful, all dating from the 1450s, are on paper. Paper was still uncommon in the region then, and its use in these few books points to a workshop with unusual trade connections rather than to a general shift in practice.
According to the text, what does the use of paper in a few of the manuscripts suggest?
- A. That the workshop that made them had unusual trade connections.Correct
- B. That parchment had become unavailable.
- C. That most copyists had switched to paper by the 1450s.
- D. That the paper manuscripts are forgeries.
Answer: A. That the workshop that made them had unusual trade connections.
Rare paper points to special connections, not to a general change.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. That parchment had become unavailable.
- Parchment remained the norm.
- C. That most copyists had switched to paper by the 1450s.
- The text says it was not a general shift.
- D. That the paper manuscripts are forgeries.
- Not suggested.
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