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A fascicle is a 'bundle of structures': an individual, booklet-sized installment of a longer work.

“(…) a fundamental reason for booklet production is the possibility of delaying any step which would absolutely determine the shape of the resulting codex. (…) On other occasions, substantial changes may accompany contextualization or codicizing of booklets. In effect, such changes reflect revisions in plan: rather than conceiving of the booklet as a basic unit, the producer begins to conceive of the unit of the whole codex. And when this step occurs, although production proceeds (or has proceeded) within booklet format, the “self-sufficiency” of the booklet is frequently lost. There are, I should think, two models for such a procedure, although both share the same ultimate effect, the obscuring of the existence of booklets altogether. First, booklets of less than a single quire in length can be imbedded into other textual units, typically at their middle, sometimes at their end. Second, larger booklets can be integrated or joined in ways which obscure the original separateness of their production. Such procedures, by readjusting textual linkages, in effect disrupt the appearance of “self-sufficiency” without changing the fact that the codex has been produced by means of booklets.' (Ralph Hanna III, 1986)

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