1268–90. Martin, scribe (“Exemplarius” alias “le Saumplarier”): dead in 1298: St. Peter’s (Magd.).
1290. In this year it is agreed between the University and City that “Pergamenarii, Luminatores, Scriptores” were in the jurisdiction of the Chancellor of the University (Munimenta Academica, ed. Anstey, p. 52).
Before 1304. Geoffrey, illuminator (“alluminator”), St. Mary’s (Magd.).
1308. Robert, notary and stationer in Cattestrete: St. Mary’s (Magd.).
In the first quarter of the 14th cent. William of Nottingham wrote MSS. Merton Coll. 158, 166, 168, 169, 170 at Oxford (Coxe: see Little’s Grey Friars in Oxford, 1892, pp. 165–6).
1340/1, Feb. Adam, bookbinder, occurs incidentally as holding a tenement in Schidyerd way (now Oriel St.), in the Bodleian Oxford charter no. 125* (Turner’s Catal., p. 307). This tenement he left to the altar of St. Thomas the Martyr in St. Mary the Virgin’s church in 1349 (Wood’s City, ed. A. Clark, ii. 22, from a copy of the will).
1341. Symon Faunt and John Faunt, bookbinders, St. Mary’s (Magd.).
1342. In this year a MS. of William of Ockham’s Summa Logices now at Bâle (F. ii. 25 according to A. G. Little’s Grey Friars in Oxford, p. 226: see Sir Tho. Phillipps’s Catalogue of MSS. at Bâle, p. 7) was written at Oxford.
1344. John Joye, illuminator (“lumnour”), of Cattestrete: St. Peter’s (Magd.).
1345. In this year the Chancellor of the University was acknowledged to have jurisdiction over “quattuor stationarios ad hujusmodi officium per ... Universitatem admissos et pro tempore admittendos ac Universitati juratos vel jurandos, necnon in omnes et singulos scriptores scholaribus in scriptorum officio servientes” (Munimenta Academica, ed. Anstey, p. 150, cf. 176; Wood’s Annals, ed. Gutch, i. 441).