In primis onerat se de x li. vj s. viij d. receptis de Ricardo Shawe per Indenturam.
Item onerat se de xx s. receptis de corpore prebende Edmundi Clouille.
Item onerat se de l s. receptis de dicto Edmundo pro officio suo videlicet Precentoris.
Summa totalis receptorum xiij li. xvj s. viij d.
In xix quaternionibus pergamenti vituli emptis pro libro Euangelij precio quaternionis viij d.xij s. viij d.
Item solutum pro uno botello ad imponendum Incaustumx d.
Item solutum pro incaustoxiiij d.
Item pro vermulioneix d.
Item pro communibus scriptoris pro xviijo. septimanis solutum per septimanam x d.xv s.
Item pro stipendio dicti scriptoris per idem tempusxiij s. iiij d.
Item solutum Ade Acton ad notandum "Liber generacionis" et "Passion[es]" in dicto libro[[232]]viij d.
Item pro examinacione et ad faciendum literas capitales gloucas [for glaucas]iij s.
Item pro illuminacione dicti libriiij s. iiij d.

Item pro ligacione dicti libri

iij s. iiij d.
Item auri fabro pro operacione suaxx s.
Item in uno equo conducto pro Petro Jon per ij vices London pro dicto libro portando et querendoviij d.
Item pro expensis dicti Petri per ij vicesxj d.
Summa lxxv s. viij d.
Item in vij quaternionibus pergamenti vituli emptis pro libro Martilogij precio quaternionis viij d.iiij s. viij d.
et non plures quia staur[o].
Item pro scriptura xij quaternionum precio quaternionis xv d.xv s.
Item pro illuminacione dicti libriv s. x d.
Item pro ligacione dicti libriij s. ij d.
Item ad faciendum literas capitales gloucasviij d.
Summa xxviij s. iiij d.
Item in xxxiiij quaternionibus pergamenti vituli emptis pro vno Anthiphonario precio quaternionis xv d.xlij s. vj d.
Item xij quaterniones de stauro
Item pro scriptura xl. quaternionum pro nota precio quaternionis xv d.l s.
Item pro scriptura vj quaternionum de phalterio[[233]] precio quaternionis ij s. ij d.xiij s.
Item ad notandum antiphonas in phalteriovj d.
Item ad notandum xl. quaterniones pro antiphonis precio vj d.xx s.
Item ad faciendum literas capitales gloucasxij d.
Item pro illuminacionexv s. xj d.
Item pro ligacionev s.
Summa vij li. vij s. xj d.
Item in xlvj quaternionibus pergamenti multonis emptis pro iij libris processionalium precio quaternionis ij d. ob.ix s. vij d.
Item pro scriptura dictarum xlvj quaternionumxv s.
Item ad notandum dictas quaternionesvij s. vj d.
Item pro illuminacioneij s. ix d.
Item pro ligacioneij s. vj d.
Summa xxxvij s. iiij d.

Summa Totalis Expensarum xiiij li. ix s. iij d. Et sic debentur computanter xij s. vij d. probatur per auditores quos r[ecepit] de Ricardo Shawe tunc precentore. Et sic equatur."

From these accounts we learn that six manuscripts were written, illuminated and bound, one of them with gold or silver clasps or bosses, at a total cost of £14. 9s. 3d., more than £150 in modern value.

The books were a Textus or Evangeliarium, a Martyrologium, an Antiphonale and three Processionals.

£s.d.
The Evangeliarium was written on 19 quaternions (quires)[[234]] of vellum, costing 8d. each, total128
Black ink12
A bottle to hold the ink10
Vermilion9
The scribe's "commons" (food) for eighteen weeks150
Payment to the scribe134
Corrections and adding coloured initials30
Illumination34
Binding34
Goldsmith's work (on the binding)100
Two journeys to London and other smaller items, making a total of £3. 15s. 8d.
The Martyrologium was partly written on 7 quaternions of vellum[[235]], costing 8d. each quaternion48
Payment to the scribe150
Illumination510
Binding22
Coloured initials8
Total184
The Antiphonale was written on 34 quaternions of larger and more expensive sheets of vellum, costing 15d. a quaternion[[236]] 226
Payments to the scribe330
Adding the musical notation106
Coloured initials10
Illumination1511
Binding50
Total7711

The three Processionals only cost £1. 17s. 4d., being written on 46 quaternions of cheap parchment made of sheep-skin which cost only 2½d. the quaternion.

Accounts of St Ewen's, Bristol.

Accounts of St Ewen's, Bristol.The following extracts from the Parish accounts of the Church of St Ewen, in Bristol[[237]], give some details as to the cost of writing, illuminating and binding a manuscript Lectionary during the years 1469 and 1470. The total expense is £3. 4s. 1d., quite equal to £20 in modern value.

1468-9.
"Item, for j dossen and v quayers of vellom to perform the legend [i.e. to write the lectionary on]xs vjd
Item, for wrytyng of the samexxvs
Item, for ix skynnys and j quayer of velom to the same legendvs vjd
Item, for wrytyng of the forseyd legendiiijs ijd
1470-1471.
Item for a red Skynne to kever the legentvd
Also for the binding and correcting of the seid Bokevs
Also for the lumining of the seid legentxiijs vjd

CHAPTER XIV.

The Materials and Technical Processes of the Illuminator.