Chapter XIV: Appendix: A

PRICES OF BOOKS AND MATERIALS FOR BOOKMAKING

_Note._--Following is a selection from a large number of prices recorded in various places. In making the selection I have included books of various prices. An asterisk (*) before the reference signifies that additional prices will be found in the same place.

_These prices must be multiplied at least ten times before the value set upon books in the Middle Ages can be compared with the value set upon them to-day._

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DATE | DESCRIPTION | PRICE
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| BIBLES |
1344 | Bible for Merton College | £3
| Rogers, i. 646 |
1354-74 | For redeeming a Bible which lay in Langeton |
| chest (1354) | £3
| For a Bible pledged in Chichester chest (1357) | £3
| For a Bible redeemed from Chichester chest (1358) | £3
| For Bible pledged in Winton chest (1358) | £3
| To our barber for a Bible pledged to him in time |
| of John Dagenet | 4 marks.
| _O. H. S._, 27, Boase, xlviii. |
1376 | Bible, small | 12 fr.
| Robinson, 5 |
_c._ 1387 | Bible for New College | £2, 13s. 4d.
| Another | £1, 6s. 8d.
| Another | £1, 0s. 0d.
| _O. H. S._, 32, _Collect._, 220 |
15 c. | Bible, 13 cent., 358 ff., double cols. of 53 |
| lines, in good small hand | 5 marks.
| James^{4}, 1 9 |
1423 | Pro j Biblia, cum ij signaculis deauratis | £6, 13s. 4d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 76 |
1439 | Bible | £3, 6s. 8d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1444 | Bible | £2, 13s. 0d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1449 | Bible covered with red leather, and having |
| gilded clasps | £6, 13s. 4d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 110 |
1452 | Bible | £6, 13s. 4d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 132 |
1471 | Bible, in 5 vols. | £2
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1473 | Bible bought at Oxford. Now Brit. Mus. MS. |
| Burney 11 | 20s.
| James, 515 |
| MISSALS |
1358 | Missal pledged in Burnel chest | 8s. 4d.
| _O. H. S._, 27, Boase, xlviii. |
1383-4 | Abbot Litlington’s missal |£34, 14s. 7d.
| Robinson, 7-8 |
1449 | Old Missal, de usu Ebor. | 26s. 8d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 110 |
1452 | Missal, de usu Ebor. | £4, 13s. 4d.
| Old Missal | 10s.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 132-33 |
1459 | A fair mass book | £10
| Rogers, iv. 600 |
1468 | Missal | £4
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 163 |
1491 | Missal | 40s.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 161 n. |
1509 | A new masboke couered with white lether and ij |
| longe claspes of latyn | £4
| A little massebooke after the ffrenche use | 3s. 4d.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.) 8vo ser., iii. 361 |
| BREVIARIES |
1370 | Portiforium | 10s.
| _Cam. Soc._, Bury Wills, 1 |
1395 | Portiforium notatum | 20s.
| Parvum portiforium | 33s. 4d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 6 |
1400 | Portiforium de usu Sarum | 66s. 8d.
| _Ibid._, 13 |
1449 | Great portiforium de usu Ebor. |£11, 3s. 6d.
| Great portiforium de usu Sarum | 53s. 4d.
| _Ibid._, 110 |
1451 | Portiforium | 6s. 8d.
| _Mun. Acad._, 609 |
1452 | Portiforium de usu Sarum | 53s. 4d.
| Portiforium de usu Ebor. | 53s. 4d.
| Portiforium | 13s. 4d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 132-33 |
1491 | Portiforium de Ebor. | 43s. 4d.
| _Ibid._, 161n. |
1518 |A little portuos lyinge to plegge in teamce street | 53s. 4d.
| _Reliquary_, vii. 18 |
| PSALTERS |
Before | |
1300 | Psalter, with glosses | 10s.
| Warton, i. 188n. |
1376 | Psalter, glossed | 12 fr.
| Robinson, 6 |
_c._ 1380 | Psalter, glossed | 26s. 8d.
| _O. H. S._, 32, _Collect._, 226 |
1395 | Psalter, in large letters; price 6_s._ 8_d._ |
| sold for | 13s. 4d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 6 |
1447 | Psalter | 3s. 8d.
| Rogers, iv. 600 |
1449 | Psalter, glossed | 11s.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 110 |
1451 | Psalter, glossed | 6s. 8d.
| _Mun. Acad._, 609 |
1452 | Psalter, glossed | 13s. 4d.
| Illuminated Psalter | 13s. 4d.
| Small Psalter | 6s. 8d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 132-33 |
1468 | Psalter | 8s. 4d.
| _Ibid._, 163 |
_c._ 1470 | Psalter | 6s. 8d.
| _Paston Letters_, ed. Gairdner, vi. 175-77 |
| ANTIPHONARIES |
_c._ 1420-40| Antiphonary for S. Albans | £6s, 13s. 4d.
| Another | £6
| _Ann. mon. S. Alb. a J. Amund._, ii. 256-71 |
1459 | 2 new great antiphons | £13, 6s. 8d.
| Rogers, iv. 600 |
1491 | Antiphonary [with musical notation] | 33s. 4d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 161 n. |
1509 | A grete antyphoner in parchement with legent |
| couered with white lether with ij long claspes of |
| latyn | £8
| An olde litle antyphoner withoute couer and |
| claspes | 3s. 4d.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.), 8vo ser., iii. 361 |
| PROCESSIONALS |
1449 | 20 new Processionals for All Souls College | £5, 13s. 4d.
| Rogers, iv. 600 |
1509 | A Processionall noted [with musical notation] |
| couered with Tawny lether and ij long claspes | 26s. 8d.
| A processionall couered with Tawny lether with |
| oon claspe | 5s.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.), iii. 361 |
| MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS |
_c._ 690 | Land sufficient for 8 families exchanged for a book |
| on cosmography, of admirable workmanship. |
| _Vitæ Abb._ § 15 |
1174 | Bede’s _Homilies_ and S. Austin’s Psalter exchanged |
| for 12 measures of barley and a pall, on which |
| was embroidered in silver the history of |
| S. Birinus converting a Saxon king. |
| Warton, i. 186 |
Before | |
1300 | Historia Scholastica [Peter Comestor], [Cf. 1452.] | £1
| Concordance | 10s.
| Four greater prophets, with glosses | 5s.
| *Warton, i. 188n. |
1300 | Book of Decretals | 3s.
| *Stevenson, _Hist. of Ely_ |
1306 | A school book | 2d.
| Rogers, i. 645-56 |
1322 | Liber gardanarum | £3, 6s. 8d.
| Rogers, i. 646 |
1357 | For book on Prophets and the third part of |
| Thomas Aquinas (tertia pars Summae), pledged |
| in Tykeford chest | 13s. 4d.
| _O. H. S._, 27, Boase, xlviii. |
_c._ 1360 | La Bible Hystoriaus, ou Les Histories escolastres. |
| B.M. Reg. 19 D ii. Taken from King of |
| France at Poitiers; bought by Wm. Montagu, |
| for | 100 marks.
| Ordered to be sold by the Last will of his |
| Countess Elizabeth for | 40 livres.
| Warton, i. 187 |
1376 | Dictionary in 3 volumes | 200 francs.
| Gospels glossed in 1 volume | 15 francs.
| N. de Lyra on the Gospels and the Epistles of Paul | 37½ francs.
| Quodlibeta of Herveus Natalis Brito | 3 francs.
| Milleloquium Augustini [anthology of S. Augustine |
| by Bartholomew of Urbino] | 80 francs.
| Augustine, super psalterium abbreviatus cum |
| septem quaternis non ligatis | 1 franc.
| N. de Lyra, third part | 37½ francs.
| Small concordance | 1 franc.
| Speculum Historiale, first part, by Vincent of |
| Beauvais | 50 francs.
| Augustine, de Civitate Dei | 12 francs.
| Lombard’s Sentences. [Cf. 1423, 1452.] | 6 francs.
| Boëthius, de Consolatione philosophiae, cum aliis. | 10 francs.
| Summa Hostiensis [one of the chief books on |
| canon law]. [Cf. 1380.] | 20 francs.
1376 | Cronica Martiniana, by Martinus Polonus; Bede, |
| de Gestis Anglorum; Life of S. Thomas, in |
| 1 volume | 10 francs.
| Anselm, de Similitudinibus | 2 francs.
| *Robinson, 5-7 |
1378 | Wylliott’s book on natural philosophy | £3, 6s. 8d.
| Rogers, i. 646 |
1379 | 11 quires of Bacon’s Mathematics | 5s. 6d.
| Rogers, i. 646 |
_c._ 1380 | Lectura T. Alquini super 410 sententiarum | 10s.
| Evangelium Johannis et Apocalypsis glosatum | 20s.
| Concordantiae Bibliae | 8s.
| Sermones veteres | 3s. 4d.
| Sermones N. Gorham de communi sanctorum | 5s.
| Liber Genesis glosatus | 20s.
| Legenda Aurea | 20s.
| Augustine, de Civitate Dei | 53s. 4d.
| Haymo super epistolas Pauli | 100s.
| Evangelium Mathaei | 2s.
| “ Johannis glos. | 3s. 4d.
| Biblia versificata | 5s.
| Quaternus sermonum | 2s. 6d.
| Epistolae Sidonii, in quaterno | 12d.
| Albertus Magnus, de vegetabilibus et plantis cum |
| multis aliis | 53s. 4d.
| Textus Metha[physi]cae | 10s.
| Commentator super libros caeli et mundi | 5s.
| Liber de Anima, continens 3 libros cum aliis | 3d.
| Textus naturalis philosophiae | 16s.
| “ | 13s. 4d.
| “ | 13s. 4d.
| Tractatus de Animalibus | 4s.
| Liber Decretalium non glosatus | 3s. 4d.
| Liber Decretalium | 16s. 8d.
| Summa Hostiensis. [Cf. 1376.] |£4, 13s. 4d.
| Liber Sextus decretalium. [Cf. 1423, 1445, |
| 1451.] | 75s.
| Codex. [Cf. 1423.] | 31s. 4d.
| Liber inforciatus. [Cf. 1423, 1445.] | 20s.
| Digestum vetus. [Cf. 1423.] | 5s.
| _O. H. S._, 32, _Collect._, 224-41 |
1389 | Problems of Aristotle for Exeter College | £4
| Boëthius, De Disciplina Scholarum, and De |
| Consolatione philosophiæ | 5 marks.
| _O. H. S._, 27, Boase, xxxvi. |
1394 | Parchment for 4 choir books, and writing them |£11, 13s. 3d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xxxv. 130 |
_c._ 1394 | Writing, illuminating and other expenses of a |
| primer, given to the Lady Queen of Castile, |
| _i.e._ Constance, 2nd wife of John of Gaunt | 63s. 6d.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.), iii. 401 |
1395 | Cronica Martiniana, cum aliis. |
| Priced 3_s._ 4_d._, sold for [Cf. price in 1376] | 3s. 4d.
| Libellus cum causa T. Cantuariensis, et aliis. |
| Priced 2_s._, sold for | 3s. 4d.
| Repertorium Willelmi Durand. |
| Priced 6_s._ 8_d._, not sold | 6s. 8d.
| William de Mandagoto de Electionibus. Priced |
| 5_s._, sold for | 6s. 8d.
| Constitutions of Ottobonus, cum aliis. Priced |
| 18_d._, not sold | 18d.
| Petrus de Formâ dictandi, quire. Priced 2_s._, |
| not sold [Cf. 1443] | 2s.
| Bernard, Meditationes, cum aliis 5_s._, |
| sold for | 6s.
| Mandeville on paper, in French. 2_s._, not sold | 2s.
| Quire, de Arte dictandi, with letters of Peter of |
| Blois. 2_s._, not sold | 2s.
| Textus Clementinarum [Decretals of Clement] |
| 12_d._, not sold | 12d.
| Brut in French. 2_s._, not sold | 2s.
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 6 |
1397 | Vellum for 6 Processionals, and writing, noting |
| (notatio, musical notation), illuminating and |
| binding them | 73s. 4d.
| _Surtees Soc._, vii. xxvi.-vii. n. |
15 c. | Liber Scintillarum | 2s.
| Augustine on John | 10 marks.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.), iii. 403 |
15 c. | For 39 quires parchment at vi_d._=xx_s._ |
| vi_d._ (_sic_) | 19s. 6d.
| For writing same at xx_d._ quire | 65s.
| For illuminating | 12d.
| For binding | 2s. 6d.
| Summa | £4, 8s. 0d.
| James^{3}, 105 |
15 c. | 27 quires parchment at iii_d._ | 6s. 9d.
| For writing same at 16_d._ | 36s.
| Illumination | 8d.
| Binding | 2s.
| Summa | 45s. 5d.
| _Ibid._, 128 |
15 c. |27 quires and 6 fo. parchment at iii_d._ | 6s. 9d.
|For writing same at 16_d._ | 36s.
|Illumination | 6d.
|Binding | 2s.
|Total | 45s. 3d.
| _Ibid._, 133|
15 c. |33 quires parchment | 8s. 3d.
|For writing same at 16_d._ | 44s.
|Illumination | 12d.
|Binding | 2s.
|Total | 55s. 3d.
| _Ibid._, 169|
15 c. |29 quires parchment at iii_d._ | 7s. 3d.
|For writing same at 16_d._ | 38s. 8d.
|Illumination | 12d.
|Binding | 2s.
|Total | 48s. 11d.
| _Ibid._, 226|
15 c. | Antonius Andreas, super Metaphysica, etc., 153ff., |
| on paper | 13s. 4d.
| James^{3}, 290|
1400 |John of Meun’s Roman de la Rose, sold before |
| the palace gate at Paris | £33, 6s. 6d.
| Warton, i. 187|
1400 |Tabula Martiniana | 3s. 4d.
|Gradual, de usu Ebor. | 40s.
|Catholicon. [Cf. 1452.] | £4, 10s. 0d.
| *_Surtees Soc._, xlv. 13|
1414 |For mending one old mass book almost worn out; |
| for parchment and new writing in divers parts |
| and for the binding and new clasps, and a skin |
| to cover the book | 11s. 2d.
| _Archæologia_, lvii. 208-9|
1420-40 |Three books given to the Duke of Gloucester, |
| Cato glossed, and two books of Abbot Whethamstede’s|
| own composition | £10
|Book of astronomy, given to the Duke of Bedford | £3, 6s. 8d.
|Boëthius, de Consolatione philosophiae, glossed | £5
|Holkot, super Sapiéntiam Salomonis | 13s. 4d.
|Holkot, Sermons | £3, 6s. 8d.
|Thos. Netter of Walden and Wm. Wodeford |
| against Wyclif. 2 vols. | £6, 13s. 4d.
|*_Ann. mon S. Alb. a J. Amund._ ii. 256, 259, 268-71.|
1420-40 |Alan de Lisle’s Anticlaudianus, cum quaestionibus |
| in eodem | 13s. 4d.
| Unus parvus libellulus, cum metris et tabulis |
| diversis | 13s. 4d.
| * _Ann. mon S. Alb. a J. Amund._ ii. 256, |
| 259, 268-71. |
1423 | Magister Sententiarum. [Cf. 1376, 1452.] | 16s.
| Concordance | 20s.
| Gregory’s Pastoral care | 4s.
| Anselm, Cur Deus homo. [Cf. 1451.] | 10s.
| Archdeacon Guido de Baysio’s Rosarium | 40s.
| Liber Sextus Decretalium. [Cf. 1380, 1445, 1451.] | 40s.
| Digestum Inforciatum. [Cf. 1380, 1445.] | 13s. 4d.
| Digestum vetus. [Cf. 1380.] | 13_s._ 4_d._
| Codex. [Cf. 1380.] |£1, 6_s._ 8_d._
| _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 76 |
1432 | Dr. Thomas Gascoigne gave 6 books to Lincoln |
| College, value | £17, 10s.
| Clark, _Linc. Coll._ (Coll. Hist.) |
1438 | Thomas Aquinas super primum Sententiarum | £1
| Thomas Aquinas in secundum Sententiarum | £1, 6s. 8d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1441 | Tabula super Senecam et Boetium de Consolat. et |
| de disciplina scholarium | 1s. 8d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1442 | One part of Lyra | £3, 6s. 8d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1443 | 27 volumes bought from John Paston’s Exors. for |
| King’s Hall, Cambridge. | £8, 17s. 4d.
1443 | For an old book, Postillae super Lucam | 2s.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1443 | Petrus de formâ dictandi. [Cf. 1395.] | 1s. 8d.
| _Mun. Acad._, 532 |
1445 | Book of philosophy, cum tractatibus Alberti | 13s. 4d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1445 | Liber Sextus Decretalium, pledged for. [Cf. 1380, | £1, et ob.
| 1423, 1451.] |
| Digestum Inforciatum, pledged for. [Cf. 1380, | 3s. 4d.
| 1423.] |
| * _Mun. Acad._, 543 |
1449 | Cicero, Rhetoric | 3s. 4d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1451 | Petrus de Palude [? in Sententiis] | 2s.
| Epistles of Seneca ad Lucilium | 2s.
| Gregory’s Sermons | 6s. 8d.
| Plato, Timaeus | 6d.
| Digestum vetus. [Cf. 1380, 1423] | 4s.
| Liber Sextus Decretalium, cum glossa cardinali. |
| [Cf. 1380, 1445, 1423.] | 5s.
| Codex. [Cf. 1423.] | 4s.
| Bernardus Parmensis de Botone, Casus longus | 5s.
| Martial | 1s.
| Anselm, Cur Deus homo. [Cf. 1423.] | 2s. 4d.
| Decretals of Clement | 3s. 4d.
| Vetus liber Decretalium | 1s. 4d.
| * _Mun. Acad._, 609 |
1452 | Isidore, Etymologies; Bede, Historia |
| Ecclesiastica | 30s.
| Augustine, de spiritu et anima, with |
| the Meditations of S. Bernard, and many |
| other contents | 40s.
| Guillelmus Parisiensis de virtutibus | 20s.
| Bartholomeus Anglicus [Bartholomew de Glanville] |
| de proprietatibus rerum | 6s. 8d.
| Pupilla oculi. [There were several books of this |
| title.] | 20s.
| Catholicon. [Cf. 1400.] | £4
| Polichronica | 20s.
| Historia Scholastica. [Cf. bef. 1300.] | 5s.
| Lombard’s Sentences. [Cf. 1376, 1423.] | 16s.
| * _Surtees Soc._, xlv. 132-3 |
1453 | Book by Wyclif | 7s. 6d.
| Book against Wyclif | 3s. 6d.
| More’s book on Wyclif and other books | £2, 2s. 0d.
| Rogers, iv. 600 |
1455 | Nicolaus de Gorham super Psalterium, pledged |
| for | £1, 6s. 8d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1455 | Gregory the Great’s Works, 157 leaves | £3, 6s. 8d.
| _Library_ (N. S.), viii. 172 |
1456 | Avicenna, redeemed for | £1, 6s. 4d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1457 | Aegidius super Physica | 16s. 8d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1457 | Aristotle de animalibus | 5s. 6d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1459 | A Holy Legend | £10
| Rogers, iv. 600 |
1462 | Aristotle, Rhetor. Polit., etc. | 8s. 5d.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1462 | Map of the world, bought for New College | £5
| Rogers, iv. 600 |
1467 | Cicero, de Officiis and Ambrosius super eodem | 6s.
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
_c._ 1468 | S. Augustine’s Epistles | £1, 13s. 4d.
| _Library_ (N.S.), viii. 172 |
1468 | Richard Rolle’s Meditatio de passione domini | 4d.
| *_Surtees Soc._, xlv. 163 |
1469 | Jerome’s Epistles | £1
| James^{10}, xxiv. |
1469 | Vellum, writing, correcting, illuminating, and |
| binding a Lectionary in redskin, and cleaning |
| the book | 64s. 3d.
| _Library_, ii. (1890), 243 |
_c._ 1470 | iij bokes of soffistre | 1s. 8d.
| A red boke with Hugucio and Papie | £1
| A boke of Seynt Thomas de Veritatibus | 10s.
| 1 boke of xij chapetyrs of Lyncoln, |
| and a boke of Safistre | 10s.
| 1 premere (primer?) | 2s.
| * Gairdner, _Paston Letters_, vi. 175, 177 |
1472 | Thomas Aquinas, Tabula on works | 5s. 4d.
| James^{10}, xxv. |
1481 | Alexander Aphrodisaeus, super libros de Anima | £1, 13s. 4d.
| Rogers, iv. 600-1 |
1502 | Hugo de Vienna’s works in 7 volumes [printed] | £2, 6s. 4d.
| Rogers, iv. 600-1 |
1509 | A printed legende in paper de usu Saris coueryd |
| with white lether with ij short claspes of latyn | 3s. 4d.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.), 8vo ser., iii. 361 |
1509 | A graile couered with white lether with ij long |
| claspes | £4, 6s. 8d.
| A graile couered with white lether having ij |
| longe claspes | 53s. 4d.
| A prikesong boke in parchement | 13s. 4d.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.), 8vo ser., iii. 361 |
_c._ 1525 | Cicero, de Officiis, bought by Thos. Linacre; |
| now B. M. Reg. 15 A vi. | 8d.
| James, 519 |
1531 | 4 hymnaria for the quire at ⅓ | 5s.
| Rogers, i. 600-1 |
1538 | 1 Statutes of the Kingdom | 14s.
| Polydore Vergil’s history | 6s. 8d.
| Rogers, i. 600-1 |
1539 | Giorgio della Valle [? Aristotle’s Poetics] | 10s.
| Rogers, iv. 600-1 |
1540 | Map of the World | 4s. 0d.
| Suidas in Greek [? printed ed. 1499] | £1, 12s. 0d.
| Erasmus on New Testament | 9s.
| Rogers, iv. 600-1 |
1542 | Theophylact and Eustathius [? printed ed. 1542] | £2, 2s. 0d.
| Epiphanius | 8s.
| Rogers, iv. 600-1 |
| Parchment for, writing, rubrishing and binding a |
| book called “Domyltone,” also rubrishing |
| Heytesbury’s Sophismata. [“Domyltone” was |
| perhaps one of John of Dumbleton’s books] | 15s. 4½d.
| _Hist. MSS._, 2nd Rept., App. 129; |
| _Bibliographica_, iii. 148 |
| _Note._--Many prices of books at Winchester |
| College, temp. Henry VI will be found in |
| _Archæol. Jour._ xv. (1858) 62-74. |
| WRITING |
1346 | For writing a Psalter with Kalendar | 5s. 6d.
| And a “placebo et dirige cum ympnario et |
| collectario” | 4s. 3d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xxxv. 165 |
1383-4 | For writing Abbot Litlington’s Missal during |
| two years | £4
| Robinson, 7-8 |
1383-4 | Livery for the scribe | 20s.
| For writing notes (musical notation) in Abbot |
| Litlington’s Missal | 3s. 4d.
| Robinson, 7-8 |
1393 | Writing 2 Graduals | £4, 6s. 8d.
| _Surtees Soc._, xxxv. 130 |
1397 | For writing a Legenda of 34 “quires” | 72s.
| _Surtees Soc._, vii. xxvi-xxvii n. |
15c. | Writing 25 quires at 16d. | 33s. 4d.
| James^{3}, 234 |
? 15 c. | Writing per quire. | 16d.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.), iii. 398 |
1430 | N. de Lyra transcribed | 100 marks
| Warton, i. 187 n. |
1467 | Item, for wrytynge of a quare and demi ... prise |
| the quayr, xx_d._ | 2s. 6d.
| Item, for wrytenge of a calendar | 12d.
| Item, for notynge (musical notation) of v. |
| quayres and ij leves, prise of the |
| quayr, viij[_d._] | 3s. 7d.
| Gairdner, _Paston Letters_, v. 4 |
1469 | For writing a “litill booke of Pheesyk” | 2d.
| For writing “the tretys of Werre in iiij books, |
| which conteyneth lx levis aftir ij_d._ a leaff” | 10s.
| For writing “De Regimine Principum, which |
| conteyneth xlv^{ti} leves, aftir a peny a leef, |
| which is right wele worth” | 3s. 9d.
| *Gairdner, _Paston Letters_, v. 2-4 |
1469 | For writing a Lectionary of 18 quires and 9 skins | 28s. 4d.
| _Library_, ii. (1890) 243 |
| ILLUMINATING |
1374 | Church of Norwich paid for illuminating a |
| Graduale and Consuetudinary | £22, 9s.
| Merryweather, 36n. |
1383-4 | For illumination of the large letters in Abbot |
| Litlington’s Missal | £22, 0s. 3d.
| Robinson, 7-8 |
1393 | Illuminating 2 graduals | £2
| _Surtees Soc._, xxxv. 130 |
1395 | Illuminating 3 graduals | £2
| _Surtees Soc._, xxxv. 130 |
1397 | Illuminating and binding Legenda of 34 “quires” | 30s.
| _Surtees Soc._, vii. xxvi-xxvii n. |
1445 | Yearly wages of an illuminator at Oxford, four |
| marks, ten shillings |
| _Mun. Acad._, 551 |
1467 | Sir John Howard paid Thomas Lympnour of |
| Bury St. Edmunds for illuminating, and other |
| work |
| For viij. hole vynets [or small miniatures] |
| prise the vynett, xij_d_ | 8s.
| Item, for xxj. demi-vynets ... prise the |
| demi-vynett, iiij_d._ | 7s.
| Item, for Psalmes lettres xv^{c} and di’ ... the |
| prise of C. iiij_d._ [_I.e._, 1550 at 4_d._ |
| a hundred] | 5s. 2d.
| Item, for p’ms letters lxiij^{c} ... prise of a |
| C., j_d._ | 5s. 3d.
| Item, for floryshynge of capytalls, v^{c} | 5d.
| Gairdner, _Paston Letters_, v. 4 |
1469 | For rubrishing a book | 3s. 4d.
| Gairdner, _Paston Letters_, v. 4 |
1469 | Illuminating a Lectionary | 13s. 6d.
| _Library_, ii. (1890) 243 |
| BINDING |
1383-4 | Binding Abbot Litlington’s Missal | 21s.
| Robinson, 7-8 |
1384-5 | Covering a great Portiforium | 3s. 2d.
| Covering a book and making three silver clasps | 5s. 8d.
| Robinson, 8 |
1392 | Binding seven books | 4s. 0d.
| _O. H. S_., 27, Boase, xlviii. |
1395 | Binding large gradual (York Cathedral) | 10s.
| _Surtees Soc._, xxxv. 130 |
? 15c. | Binding (in white skin over wooden boards) | 2s.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.), iii. 398 |
1412-13 | Stitching 67 books at 1½_d._ a book, with |
| 13_d._ in addition | 9s. 5½d.
| Stitching covers of 52 books at 1_d._ | 4s. 4d.
| _C. A. S._ (N.S.), iv. 300-3 |
1428 | Binding Bible in 2 vols. | 5s. 3d.
| Rogers, iv. 600 |
1467 | Item, for byndynge of the boke [a Psalter or |
| other liturgical book] | 12s.
| Gairdner, _Paston Letters_, v. 4 |
1469 | Binding a Lectionary in redskin, and correcting |
| the book | 5s. 5d.
| _Library_, ii. (1890) 243 |
| _Note._--For many prices for binding, |
| repairing, and chaining books, see |
| Bibliographical Society’s Monograph 13, |
| p. 18-19. |
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MATERIALS

A very large number of prices of vellum and parchment might be quoted. These will suffice: (1301) vellum per skin, 1¼d.; (1312-13) 6 doz. parchment, 8s. 8d.; (1358-59) 2 doz. parchment, 6s.; (1359-60) 2½ doz. parchment, 7s. 6d.; (1383-84) 13 doz. vellum, £4, 6s. 8d.; (1395) 12 parchment skins, 5s. 0d.; (1397) vellum per dozen skins, 4s. 6d.; (1412-13) vellum cost a dozen skins 2s. 10d.; (1412-13) 9 skins of parchment 13½d., and 6 skins of parchment, 16d.; (1467) 3 quires of vellum, 5s.; 17 quires for a Lectionary, 10s. 6d.

Skins for binding were sold in (1395) 1 deerskin, 3s. 2d.; (1397) 6 deerskins for processionals, 13s. 4d; (1412-13) 97 calfskins @ 4d. a skin, 82 sheepskins @ 3d., 3 sheepskins for 5d., 12 redskins @ 6d.; (1469) 1 redskin, 5d.