Obs. (exc. Hist.) A skin prepared for writing upon, a sheet of vellum or parchment; a parchment or vellum manuscript.
a. 1000. in Thorpe, Laws, II. 244 (Bosw.). Ðæt hi habban blæc and bocfel.
a. 1225. St. Marher., 23. Þat ich hit write on bocfelle.
1863. Furnivall, in Reader, 28 Feb., 214. Those who love tall folios and book-fells.
1868. G. Stephens, Runic Mon., I. ix. Our ancient bookfells.
