[f. L. quinque five, or quintus fifth, after quaternion.] A set or ‘gathering’ of five sheets of paper.
1652. Urquhart, Jewel, Wks. (1834), 189. The quinternion consisting of five sheets, and the quire of five and twenty.
1883. Axon, Introd. Caxton’s Chesse, p. xi. The book … consists of eight quaternions … and one quinternion or section of five sheets folded together.
