The Early Oxford Press / A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations

by Falconer Madan

c. 1240–90. Simon Scoticus, parchment-maker (“parcamenarius”) in Cattestrete, St. Peter’s (Magd.).

1242. Robert de Derbi, illuminator, in Cattestrete, St. Peter’s (Magd.).

About the middle of the 13th cent. the following names occur in Twyne’s transcript of a St. Frideswide record—a deed between Petrus filius Toraldi and Adam filius Hugonis Ruffi about land in the parish of St. Mary the Virgin:—Robert, illuminator; Simon, parchment-maker; and as witnesses, Thomas, scribe; Peter, parchment-maker (Twyne XXIII, p, 69).

1251–2. Stephen, parchment-maker (“percamenarius”), in Cattestrete, St. Peter’s (Magd.).

1252–3. William, scribe (“le Samplarier”), St. Peter’s (Magd.).

1252–90. Stephen, bookbinder, St. Peter’s (Magd.).

1264–84. William de Pikerynge, bookbinder, (“laminator”), died before 1308: found both in St. Mary’s and St. Peter’s deeds: probably the same as William the bookbinder of Oxford, the motto on whose seal in 1275 was “Vivite innocue; lumen adest” (Magd.).

1266. Hugh, illuminator, St. Mary’s (Magd.).

1266–78. Symon and Yon, bookbinders, St. Peter’s (Magd.).

1267. Reginald, illuminator, St. Peter’s (Magd.).