Old English libraries

by Ernest Albert Savage

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.

Date	Description	Price
	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.
	James4, 19
1423	Pro j Biblia, cum ij signaculis deauratis	£6, 13s. 4d.
	Surtees Soc., xlv. 76
1439	Bible	£3, 6s. 8d.
	James10, xxiv.
1444	Bible	£2, 13s. 0d.
	James10, 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
	James10, 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 6s. 8d.
	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 3s. 4d., sold for [Cf. price in 1376]	3s. 4d.
	Libellus cum causa T. Cantuariensis, et aliis.
	Priced 2s., sold for	3s. 4d.
	Repertorium Willelmi Durand.
	Priced 6s. 8d., not sold	6s. 8d.
	William de Mandagoto de Electionibus. Priced
	5s., sold for	6s. 8d.
	Constitutions of Ottobonus, cum aliis. Priced
	18d., not sold	18d.
	Petrus de Formâ dictandi, quire. Priced 2s.,
	not sold [Cf. 1443]	2s.
	Bernard, Meditationes, cum aliis 5s.,
	sold for	6s.
	Mandeville on paper, in French. 2s., not sold	2s.
	Quire, de Arte dictandi, with letters of Peter of
	Blois. 2s., not sold	2s.
	Textus Clementinarum [Decretals of Clement]
	12d., not sold	12d.
	Brut in French. 2s., 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 vid.=xxs.
	vid. (sic)	19s. 6d.
	For writing same at xxd. quire	65s.
	For illuminating	12d.
	For binding	2s. 6d.
	Summa	£4, 8s. 0d.
	James3, 105
15 c.	27 quires parchment at iiid.	6s. 9d.
	For writing same at 16d.	36s.
	Illumination	8d.
	Binding	2s.
	Summa	45s. 5d.
	Ibid., 128
15 c.	27 quires and 6 fo. parchment at iiid.	6s. 9d.
	For writing same at 16d.	36s.
	Illumination	6d.
	Binding	2s.
	Total	45s. 3d.
	Ibid., 133
15 c.	33 quires parchment	8s. 3d.
	For writing same at 16d.	44s.
	Illumination	12d.
	Binding	2s.
	Total	55s. 3d.
	Ibid., 169
15 c.	29 quires parchment at iiid.	7s. 3d.
	For writing same at 16d.	38s. 8d.
	Illumination	12d.
	Binding	2s.
	Total	48s. 11d.
	Ibid., 226
15 c.	Antonius Andreas, super Metaphysica, etc., 153ff.,
	on paper	13s. 4d.
	James3, 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.]	13s. 4d.
	Codex. [Cf. 1380.]	£1, 6s. 8d.
	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.
	James10, xxiv.
1441	Tabula super Senecam et Boetium de Consolat. et
	de disciplina scholarium	1s. 8d.
	James10, xxiv.
1442	One part of Lyra	£3, 6s. 8d.
	James10, 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.
	James10, xxiv.
1443	Petrus de formâ dictandi. [Cf. 1395.]	1s. 8d.
	Mun. Acad., 532
1445	Book of philosophy, cum tractatibus Alberti	13s. 4d.
	James10, 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.
	James10, 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.
	James10, xxiv.
1455	Gregory the Great's Works, 157 leaves	£3, 6s. 8d.
	Library (N. S.), viii. 172
1456	Avicenna, redeemed for	£1, 6s. 4d.
	James10, xxiv.
1457	Aegidius super Physica	16s. 8d.
	James10, xxiv.
1457	Aristotle de animalibus	5s. 6d.
	James10, xxiv.
1459	A Holy Legend	£10
	Rogers, iv. 600
1462	Aristotle, Rhetor. Polit., etc.	8s. 5d.
	James10, xxiv.
1462	Map of the world, bought for New College	£5
	Rogers, iv. 600
1467	Cicero, de Officiis and Ambrosius super eodem	6s.
	James10, 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
	James10, 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.
	James10, 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.
	James3, 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, xxd.	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 ijd. a leaff"	10s.
	For writing "De Regimine Principum, which
	conteyneth xlvti 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, xijd	8s.
	Item, for xxj. demi-vynets ... prise the
	demi-vynett, iiijd.	7s.
	Item, for Psalmes lettres xvc and di' ... the
	prise of C. iiijd. [I.e., 1550 at 4d.
	a hundred]	5s. 2d.
	Item, for p'ms letters lxiijc ... prise of a
	C., jd.	5s. 3d.
	Item, for floryshynge of capytalls, vc	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 1½d. a book, with
	13d. in addition	9s. 5½d.
	Stitching covers of 52 books at 1d.	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
	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.

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.

APPENDIX B
LIST OF CERTAIN CLASSIC AUTHORS FOUND IN MEDIEVAL CATALOGUES

THIS list is brief, but it should be long enough to show clearly what Greek and Latin authors were read in the Middle Ages, and to indicate roughly their comparative popularity. A note has been made of only one copy of a work found at a particular place at a certain time; often there were duplicates, sometimes many copies: for example, consult Appendix C, under date c. 1170.