It was common Anglo-Saxon practice to form a quire from four sheets of parchment - folded to make eight leaves.
This codex of the letters of Paul was made out of one single quire.
As always give us a ring if you have a quire and ask for Big " H "
I found an exhausted person sitting in the quire of the Cathedral looking up at the Great East Window.
They then descend into the two different folders, where they are folded and cut - the copies being discharged on to the delivery boards situated at the two sides of the left-hand portion of the machine, and each quire is counted or told off by being jogged forward.