sexternus

sexternus [CL sex by anal. w. CL quaternus], ~um 1 gathering or quire of six pieces of parchment or paper, folded in half to form twelve folios, sextern (usu. as component part of larger manuscript). p1250 hec de primo libro sufficiant. et sunt in universo viij ~i et j folium et dimidium OHS XCVI 59; p1250 sex ‥ petie sequentes sunt ~i integri Ib.; 1283 prout continetur in quodam ~o misso ad ipsam cameram sub sigillis ipsorum collectorum EHR XXXII 55; c1290 quendam tractatum qui tabula juris appellatur ‥ qui continet xv ~os fere voluminis illius libri qui ad feretrum solebat jacere DCCant. p. 278; scripsi manu mea quinquaginta ~os de communi forma papyri Ockham Pol. III 15; 1418 scripsit regi litteram vulgarem ‥ que translata est in Latinam, et reperitur in secundo ~o Foed. IX 610. 2 unit of measure (in quot. of wine), sester(n), sextern (cf. sextarius). s1199 R. Howd. IV 99, Map NC V 5 f. 63v (v. sextertium b); 1463 de lv ~is vini receptis in ij pipis vini ‥ qualibet pipa continente xxvij sextern' dim. vini, repertis in v pipis vini rubii et albi receptis de empcione Comp. Dom. Buck. 58.