1467. British Museum MS. Royal 6 D II once bore the following interesting inscription, before it was re-bound, “Iste liber ligatus erat Oxonii, in Catstrete, ad instantiam Reverendi Domini Thome Wybarun in sacra Theologia Bacalarii Monachi Roffensis, Anno Domini 1467” (see Casley’s Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the Kings Library (1734), Dibdin’s Bibliographical Decameron (1817), ii. 449: the volume contains the Letters of St. Jerome, and had been given to Rochester by Benedict, bp. of Rochester, d. 1226).
“1468”–1486
7. Oxford printing, see Appendix A.
1473. Thomas Hunt, “universitatis Oxonie stacionarius,” sold Brit. Mus. MS. Burney 11 (a Latin Bible) in this year (see the Catalogue, printed in 1840). In 1477 and 1479 he was living in Haberdasher hall in the parish of St. Mary the Virgin (Bodl. MS. Wood F. 15, a collection of Oseney rentals: Wood’s “Thomas Howle, stacioniar,” of Haberdasher hall in 1477 in Bodl. MS. Wood D. 2, p. 587, from the above MS., is a mis-reading by Wood for Honte, i. e. Hunte). In 1483 he appears as agreeing to sell certain books in Oxford at fixed prices (the list, which is on a paper now forming a fly-leaf of a French translation of Livy (Paris, 1486) now in the Bodleian, is printed in the publications of the Oxf. Hist. Soc. vol. v. (Collectanea, I), pp. 74, 141–3). In all probability he is the same Thomas Hunt who in 1485 printed the Phalaridis Epistolae at Oxford in conjunction with Theodoric Rood (see pp. [4], [238]).
1481–85. Theodoric Rood, printed at Oxford (see pp. [2], [4], [238]).
1482. F. H., — Hawkins, J. Alexander (Alison) occur as parchment-sellers: see p. [256].
1490. William Vavasour, scribe. MS. Corpus Christi Coll. (Oxf.) 228 was written “per manum fratris Wyllelmi Vavysur,” “Oxonie anno 1490” (the date and word “Oxonie” might possibly refer to the time and place of the “determinationes physicæ”: but) MS. Corpus 227 was “scriptus per me fratrem Wyllelmum, studentem Oxonie anno ... 1419 [1491]” and “per manum fratris Wyllelmi Vavysur ejusdem ordinis [sc. fratrum Minorum] ... 1491.”
1501. Sebastian Actors, bookseller of St. Mary the Virgin’s parish. Record of a grant of administration after his decease, 23 April 1501 (Oxf. Univ. Archives—Wills).
1501. Christopher Coke, stationer. A similar record with inventory, 13 Dec. 1501 (ibid.).
1502/3. William Lesquier, bookseller. A similar record, 1 Feb. 1502
3 (ibid.).
1506. Georgius Castellanus, bookseller (?): see p. [11].