Books and their makers during the Middle Ages

by George Haven Putnam

[299] Thurot, p. 65, cited by Compayré, 188.

[300] Opus Major, cited by Compayré, 188.

[301] Delisle, Cartulaire de Normandie, Mém. des Antiquaires de Normandie, 1852, ii., 6, 326.

[302] Oper. Inedita. Ed. Brewer, p. 13, Watt., 470.

[303] Broderie, Bibl. de l’École de Chartres, v., 3. 49. Watt., p. 472.

[304] The “Stationers or Text-Writers who wrote and sold all sorts of books then in use” secured their privileges as a Guild in 1403 from the Lord Mayor and Board of Aldermen of London.

The Company had, however, no control over printed books until it received its charter from Mary and Philip, in 1557. Curwen, 18.

[305] Kirchhoff, 115.

[306] Kirchhoff, 187.

[307] Paulsen, 41.