Richard du Marche, an illuminator, was paid forty shillings for illuminating a Psalter and a pair of tablets for Queen Eleanor, consort of Edward I.
In the same accounts of this queen an entry is made of £6, 13s. 4d. to Adam the royal goldsmith for work done upon certain books.[17]
Professor Middleton printed in his “Illuminated Manuscripts” (pp. 220-23) extracts from the Manuscript Records of the Collegiate Church of St. George at Windsor, from which it appears that John Prust (Canon of Windsor from 1379 to 1385) was paid £14, 9s. 3d. for six manuscripts written, illuminated, and bound, one of them with gold or silver clasps or bosses. The six books were an Evangeliarium, a Martyrologium, an Antiphonale, and three Processionals. The items of each are as follows:—
| Evangeliarium. | ||||
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| 19 quaternions (quires) of vellum at 8d. each | 0 | 12 | 8 | |
| Black ink | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Bottle to hold the ink | 0 | 0 | 10 | |
| Vermilion | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
| The scribe’s “commons” (food) for eighteen weeks | 0 | 15 | 0 | |
| Payment to the scribe | 0 | 13 | 4 | |
| Corrections and adding coloured initials | 0 | 3 | 0 | |
| Illumination | 0 | 3 | 4 | |
| Binding | 0 | 3 | 4 | |
| Goldsmith’s work (on the binding) | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| £3 | 13 | 5 | ||
Two journeys to London and some smaller items made a total of £3, 15s. 8d.
| Martyrologium. | ||||
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| 7 quaternions of vellum at 8d. | 0 | 4 | 8 | |
| Payment to the scribe | 0 | 15 | 0 | |
| Illumination | 0 | 5 | 10 | |
| Binding | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| Coloured initials | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| £1 | 8 | 4 | ||
| Antiphonale. | ||||
| 34 quaternions of larger and more expensive sheets of vellum at 15d | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
| Payments to the scribe | 3 | 3 | 0 | |
| Adding to the musical notation | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
| Coloured initials | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| Illumination | 0 | 15 | 11 | |
| Binding | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| £7 | 7 | 11 | ||
(Twelve quires of vellum which were in stock were also used for this Antiphonale.)
The three Processionals only cost £1, 17s. 4d., being written on forty-six quaternions of cheap parchment made of sheepskin, which cost only 2½d. the quaternion.