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Sextodecimos
Sextodecimo Sex`to*dec"imo, n.; pl. Sextodecimos. A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16[deg].
Sextodecimo
Sextodecimo Sex`to*dec"i*mo, a. [L. sextus-decimus the sixteenth; sextus the sixth (fr. sex six) + decimus the tenth, from decem ten. See -mo.] Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; of, or equal to, the size of one fold of a sheet of printing paper when folded so as to make sixteen leaves, or thirty-two pages; as, a sextodecimo volume.
Sextodecimo
Sextodecimo Sex`to*dec"imo, n.; pl. Sextodecimos. A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into sixteen leaves; hence, indicating, more or less definitely, a size of a book; -- usually written 16mo, or 16[deg].

Meaning of Sextodecimos from wikipedia

- per sheet and pages one-third the size of the quarto format, and the ****todecimo (16mo or sixteenmo), with sixteen leaves per sheet, half the size of...
- her writings, the most widely and the most favourably known. They are ****todecimos, of about 150 pages each. I will be a Gentleman, 1844, twenty editions;...
- Folio fo, f 1 2 4 Quarto 4to 2 4 8 ****to, sixmo 6to, 6mo 3 6 12 Octavo 8vo 3 8 16 Duodecimo, twelvemo 12mo 4 12 24 ****todecimo, sixteenmo 16mo 4 16 32...
- George Frederick (ed.). Songs from Robert Burns 1759–1796 (leather-bound ****todecimo). Collins Greetings Booklets (in English and Scots). Glasgow: Collins...
- (also 8vo. and 8º) is folded in half three times to make 8 leaves. A ****todecimo volume (thirty-two-page signature) is typically 4+1⁄2 by 6+3⁄4 in (11...
- instructed to limit himself to the quarto Bible and to the Testament in ****todecimo. One of Jugge's printer's devices consisted of a m****ive architectural...
- university faculty/students. Though in 1543, his style shifted to that of ****todecimo format, printing Bibles in Latin, Gr****, and Hebrew, which ****umes the...
- the 19th and 20th century. The size of today's average business card - ****todecimo - these cards often contained a president's signature and sometimes a...
- in 16th-century Lyon. He invented the pocket book format called the ****todecimo, printed with sixteen leaves to the folio sheet, half the size of the...
- related but distinct Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles ... Abridged (in ****todecimo format). Both works ran through multiple editions during Stow's lifetime:...