Duodec format

Open book with a spine height of 12.5 cm ( fairy tale almanac for the year 1826 )

The Duodezformat (from Latin duodecim - 'twelve', abbreviation 12 ° ) is an old, small exercise book or book format in which a sheet of paper was broken into twelve sheets (24 pages).

The size of a sheet of paper changed over time. At first it was completely arbitrary and, depending on the age, depended on the size of the parchment or (later) the shape of the ladle. Since 1883 efforts were made in Germany to standardize the bow sizes. Twelve normal formats were created, of which the number 1 was unbroken or flat, measuring 33 cm × 42 cm.

See also

• Large print
• Paper size
• Newspaper format
• Comic format
• Miniature book
• Duodec State

swell

1. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , Leipzig and Vienna 1896, Vol. 5, p. 290.
2. Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , Leipzig and Vienna 1896, Vol. 13, p. 487.
3. Theodor Fontane: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg, third part, Havelland Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1982, pp. 288 and 617.

literature

• Ursula Rautenberg (Hrsg.): Reclams Sachlexikon des Buches. Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010542-0 , p. 95.