1349. In I. B. De Rossi’s Codices Palatini Latini bibliothecae Vaticanae descripti (1886) in MS. no. 377 “adnotatur emptio codicis ‘pro duobus Florenis cum dimidio Anno domini Mo.CCCo.XLo nono in ciuitate oxoniensi.’”
XIVth cent. Roger, stationer (Oxf. Univ. Archives, box F, no 24).
XIVth cent. Adam de Walton, parchment maker (ibid., box F. no. 26).
XIVth cent. William, bookbinder (ibid., box F, no. 28).
c. 1350. MS. New College 134 was written at Oxford in about A.D. 1350 (Coxe).
In the 14th cent. in an undated deed in the Oxf. Univ. Archives between John Pilat and Walter “filius Paulini de Eynsham” about land in St. Mary’s parish, the following occur as witnesses:—Ralph, Robert, James, illuminators; Walter, Augustine, Adam, bookbinders (“liurs”); Simon, parchment-maker (Twyne XXIII, p. 103; cf. Bodl. MS. Wood D. 2, p. 489).
1353. Thomas Hamme, bookseller (“Vetus quoddam inventarium de bonis Thomæ Hamme bibliopolæ et stationarii ut videtur anno domini 1353,”) once in the Oxf. Univ. Archives, box K, no. 2; but this most interesting document is noted by Gerard Langbaine as having been stolen during the Civil War (MS. Twyne I, 278).
1358/9. Richard Lynne, stationer (“stacionarius Universitatis Oxun.”) (Coxe): Richard the stationer occurs in Lent 1358 (Boase’s Registrum Oxoniense, 1st ed., p. xi).
1364. MS. New College 173 was written at Oxford in this year (Coxe).
1370. Robert, bookbinder, St. Mary’s (Magd.): Robert Bokebinder and Agnes his wife occur in 1377 (?) and 1380 (Oxf. City Doc., pp. 41, 47).