APPENDIX A PRICES OF BOOKS AND MATERIALS FOR BOOKMAKING
Reading edition
Note.—Following is a selection from a large number of prices recorded in various places. In making the selection I have included books of various prices. An asterisk (*) before the reference signifies that additional prices will be found in the same place.
These prices must be multiplied at least ten times before the value set upon books in the Middle Ages can be compared with the value set upon them to-day.
Date Description Price
BIBLES
1344 Bible for Merton College £3
Rogers, i. 646
1354-74 For redeeming a Bible which lay in Langeton
chest (1354) £3
For a Bible pledged in Chichester chest (1357) £3
For a Bible redeemed from Chichester chest (1358) £3
For Bible pledged in Winton chest (1358) £3
To our barber for a Bible pledged to him in time
of John Dagenet 4 marks.
O. H. S., 27, Boase, xlviii.
1376 Bible, small 12 fr.
Robinson, 5
c. 1387 Bible for New College £2, 13s. 4d.
Another £1, 6s. 8d.
Another £1, 0s. 0d.
O. H. S., 32, Collect., 220
15 c. Bible, 13 cent., 358 ff., double cols. of 53
lines, in good small hand 5 marks.
James4, 19
1423 Pro j Biblia, cum ij signaculis deauratis £6, 13s. 4d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 76
1439 Bible £3, 6s. 8d.
James10, xxiv.
1444 Bible £2, 13s. 0d.
James10, xxiv.
1449 Bible covered with red leather, and having
gilded clasps £6, 13s. 4d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 110
1452 Bible £6, 13s. 4d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 132
1471 Bible, in 5 vols. £2
James10, xxiv.
1473 Bible bought at Oxford. Now Brit. Mus. MS.
Burney 11 20s.
James, 515
MISSALS
1358 Missal pledged in Burnel chest 8s. 4d.
O. H. S., 27, Boase, xlviii.
1383-4 Abbot Litlington's missal£34, 14s. 7d.
Robinson, 7-8
1449 Old Missal, de usu Ebor. 26s. 8d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 110
1452 Missal, de usu Ebor. £4, 13s. 4d.
Old Missal 10s.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 132-33
1459 A fair mass book £10
Rogers, iv. 600
1468 Missal £4
Surtees Soc., xlv. 163
1491 Missal 40s.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 161 n.
1509 A new masboke couered with white lether and ij
longe claspes of latyn £4
A little massebooke after the ffrenche use 3s. 4d.
C. A. S. (N.S.) 8vo ser., iii. 361
BREVIARIES
1370 Portiforium 10s.
Cam. Soc., Bury Wills, 1
1395 Portiforium notatum 20s.
Parvum portiforium 33s. 4d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 6
1400 Portiforium de usu Sarum 66s. 8d.
Ibid., 13
1449 Great portiforium de usu Ebor.£11, 3s. 6d.
Great portiforium de usu Sarum 53s. 4d.
Ibid., 110
1451 Portiforium 6s. 8d.
Mun. Acad., 609
1452 Portiforium de usu Sarum 53s. 4d.
Portiforium de usu Ebor. 53s. 4d.
Portiforium 13s. 4d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 132-33
1491 Portiforium de Ebor. 43s. 4d.
Ibid., 161n.
1518 A little portuos lyinge to plegge in teamce street 53s. 4d.
Reliquary, vii. 18
PSALTERS
Before
1300 Psalter, with glosses 10s.
Warton, i. 188n.
1376 Psalter, glossed 12 fr.
Robinson, 6
c. 1380 Psalter, glossed 26s. 8d.
O. H. S., 32, Collect., 226
1395 Psalter, in large letters; price 6s. 8d.
sold for 13s. 4d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 6
1447 Psalter 3s. 8d.
Rogers, iv. 600
1449 Psalter, glossed 11s.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 110
1451 Psalter, glossed 6s. 8d.
Mun. Acad., 609
1452 Psalter, glossed 13s. 4d.
Illuminated Psalter 13s. 4d.
Small Psalter 6s. 8d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 132-33
1468 Psalter 8s. 4d.
Ibid., 163
c. 1470 Psalter 6s. 8d.
Paston Letters, ed. Gairdner, vi. 175-77
ANTIPHONARIES
c. 1420-40 Antiphonary for S. Albans £6s, 13s. 4d.
Another £6
Ann. mon. S. Alb. a J. Amund., ii. 256-71
1459 2 new great antiphons £13, 6s. 8d.
Rogers, iv. 600
1491 Antiphonary [with musical notation] 33s. 4d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 161 n.
1509 A grete antyphoner in parchement with legent
couered with white lether with ij long claspes of
latyn £8
An olde litle antyphoner withoute couer and
claspes 3s. 4d.
C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo ser., iii. 361
PROCESSIONALS
1449 20 new Processionals for All Souls College £5, 13s. 4d.
Rogers, iv. 600
1509 A Processionall noted [with musical notation]
couered with Tawny lether and ij long claspes 26s. 8d.
A processionall couered with Tawny lether with
oon claspe 5s.
C. A. S. (N.S.), iii. 361
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS
c. 690 Land sufficient for 8 families exchanged for a book
on cosmography, of admirable workmanship.
Vitæ Abb. § 15
1174 Bede's Homilies and S. Austin's Psalter exchanged
for 12 measures of barley and a pall, on which
was embroidered in silver the history of
S. Birinus converting a Saxon king.
Warton, i. 186
Before
1300 Historia Scholastica [Peter Comestor], [Cf. 1452.] £1
Concordance 10s.
Four greater prophets, with glosses 5s.
*Warton, i. 188n.
1300 Book of Decretals 3s.
*Stevenson, Hist. of Ely
1306 A school book 2d.
Rogers, i. 645-56
1322 Liber gardanarum £3, 6s. 8d.
Rogers, i. 646
1357 For book on Prophets and the third part of
Thomas Aquinas (tertia pars Summae), pledged
in Tykeford chest 13s. 4d.
O. H. S., 27, Boase, xlviii.
c. 1360 La Bible Hystoriaus, ou Les Histories escolastres.
B.M. Reg. 19 D ii. Taken from King of
France at Poitiers; bought by Wm. Montagu,
for 100 marks.
Ordered to be sold by the Last will of his
Countess Elizabeth for 40 livres.
Warton, i. 187
1376 Dictionary in 3 volumes 200 francs.
Gospels glossed in 1 volume 15 francs.
N. de Lyra on the Gospels and the Epistles of Paul 37½ francs.
Quodlibeta of Herveus Natalis Brito 3 francs.
Milleloquium Augustini [anthology of S. Augustine
by Bartholomew of Urbino] 80 francs.
Augustine, super psalterium abbreviatus cum
septem quaternis non ligatis 1 franc.
N. de Lyra, third part 37½ francs.
Small concordance 1 franc.
Speculum Historiale, first part, by Vincent of
Beauvais 50 francs.
Augustine, de Civitate Dei 12 francs.
Lombard's Sentences. [Cf. 1423, 1452.] 6 francs.
Boëthius, de Consolatione philosophiae, cum aliis. 10 francs.
Summa Hostiensis [one of the chief books on
canon law]. [Cf. 1380.] 20 francs.
1376 Cronica Martiniana, by Martinus Polonus; Bede,
de Gestis Anglorum; Life of S. Thomas, in
1 volume 10 francs.
Anselm, de Similitudinibus 2 francs.
*Robinson, 5-7
1378 Wylliott's book on natural philosophy £3, 6s. 8d.
Rogers, i. 646
1379 11 quires of Bacon's Mathematics 5s. 6d.
Rogers, i. 646
c. 1380 Lectura T. Alquini super 410 sententiarum 10s.
Evangelium Johannis et Apocalypsis glosatum 20s.
Concordantiae Bibliae 8s.
Sermones veteres 3s. 4d.
Sermones N. Gorham de communi sanctorum 5s.
Liber Genesis glosatus 20s.
Legenda Aurea 20s.
Augustine, de Civitate Dei 53s. 4d.
Haymo super epistolas Pauli 100s.
Evangelium Mathaei 2s.
" Johannis glos. 3s. 4d.
Biblia versificata 5s.
Quaternus sermonum 2s. 6d.
Epistolae Sidonii, in quaterno 12d.
Albertus Magnus, de vegetabilibus et plantis cum
multis aliis 53s. 4d.
Textus Metha[physi]cae 10s.
Commentator super libros caeli et mundi 5s.
Liber de Anima, continens 3 libros cum aliis 3d.
Textus naturalis philosophiae 16s.
" 13s. 4d.
" 13s. 4d.
Tractatus de Animalibus 4s.
Liber Decretalium non glosatus 3s. 4d.
Liber Decretalium 16s. 8d.
Summa Hostiensis. [Cf. 1376.]£4, 13s. 4d.
Liber Sextus decretalium. [Cf. 1423, 1445,
1451.] 75s.
Codex. [Cf. 1423.] 31s. 4d.
Liber inforciatus. [Cf. 1423, 1445.] 20s.
Digestum vetus. [Cf. 1423.] 5s.
O. H. S., 32, Collect., 224-41
1389 Problems of Aristotle for Exeter College £4
Boëthius, De Disciplina Scholarum, and De
Consolatione philosophiæ 5 marks.
O. H. S., 27, Boase, xxxvi.
1394 Parchment for 4 choir books, and writing them£11, 13s. 3d.
Surtees Soc., xxxv. 130
c. 1394 Writing, illuminating and other expenses of a
primer, given to the Lady Queen of Castile,
i.e. Constance, 2nd wife of John of Gaunt 63s. 6d.
C. A. S. (N.S.), iii. 401
1395 Cronica Martiniana, cum aliis.
Priced 3s. 4d., sold for [Cf. price in 1376] 3s. 4d.
Libellus cum causa T. Cantuariensis, et aliis.
Priced 2s., sold for 3s. 4d.
Repertorium Willelmi Durand.
Priced 6s. 8d., not sold 6s. 8d.
William de Mandagoto de Electionibus. Priced
5s., sold for 6s. 8d.
Constitutions of Ottobonus, cum aliis. Priced
18d., not sold 18d.
Petrus de Formâ dictandi, quire. Priced 2s.,
not sold [Cf. 1443] 2s.
Bernard, Meditationes, cum aliis 5s.,
sold for 6s.
Mandeville on paper, in French. 2s., not sold 2s.
Quire, de Arte dictandi, with letters of Peter of
Blois. 2s., not sold 2s.
Textus Clementinarum [Decretals of Clement]
12d., not sold 12d.
Brut in French. 2s., not sold 2s.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 6
1397 Vellum for 6 Processionals, and writing, noting
(notatio, musical notation), illuminating and
binding them 73s. 4d.
Surtees Soc., vii. xxvi.-vii. n.
15 c. Liber Scintillarum 2s.
Augustine on John 10 marks.
C. A. S. (N.S.), iii. 403
15 c. For 39 quires parchment at vid.=xxs.
vid. (sic) 19s. 6d.
For writing same at xxd. quire 65s.
For illuminating 12d.
For binding 2s. 6d.
Summa £4, 8s. 0d.
James3, 105
15 c. 27 quires parchment at iiid. 6s. 9d.
For writing same at 16d. 36s.
Illumination 8d.
Binding 2s.
Summa 45s. 5d.
Ibid., 128
15 c. 27 quires and 6 fo. parchment at iiid. 6s. 9d.
For writing same at 16d. 36s.
Illumination 6d.
Binding 2s.
Total 45s. 3d.
Ibid., 133
15 c. 33 quires parchment 8s. 3d.
For writing same at 16d. 44s.
Illumination 12d.
Binding 2s.
Total 55s. 3d.
Ibid., 169
15 c. 29 quires parchment at iiid. 7s. 3d.
For writing same at 16d. 38s. 8d.
Illumination 12d.
Binding 2s.
Total 48s. 11d.
Ibid., 226
15 c. Antonius Andreas, super Metaphysica, etc., 153ff.,
on paper 13s. 4d.
James3, 290
1400 John of Meun's Roman de la Rose, sold before
the palace gate at Paris £33, 6s. 6d.
Warton, i. 187
1400 Tabula Martiniana 3s. 4d.
Gradual, de usu Ebor. 40s.
Catholicon. [Cf. 1452.] £4, 10s. 0d.
*Surtees Soc., xlv. 13
1414 For mending one old mass book almost worn out;
for parchment and new writing in divers parts
and for the binding and new clasps, and a skin
to cover the book 11s. 2d.
Archæologia, lvii. 208-9
1420-40 Three books given to the Duke of Gloucester,
Cato glossed, and two books of Abbot Whethamstede's
own composition £10
Book of astronomy, given to the Duke of Bedford £3, 6s. 8d.
Boëthius, de Consolatione philosophiae, glossed £5
Holkot, super Sapiéntiam Salomonis 13s. 4d.
Holkot, Sermons £3, 6s. 8d.
Thos. Netter of Walden and Wm. Wodeford
against Wyclif. 2 vols. £6, 13s. 4d.
*Ann. mon S. Alb. a J. Amund. ii. 256, 259,
268-71.
1420-40Alan de Lisle's Anticlaudianus, cum quaestionibus
in eodem 13s. 4d.
Unus parvus libellulus, cum metris et tabulis
diversis 13s. 4d.
* Ann. mon S. Alb. a J. Amund. ii. 256,
259, 268-71.
1423 Magister Sententiarum. [Cf. 1376, 1452.] 16s.
Concordance 20s.
Gregory's Pastoral care 4s.
Anselm, Cur Deus homo. [Cf. 1451.] 10s.
Archdeacon Guido de Baysio's Rosarium 40s.
Liber Sextus Decretalium. [Cf. 1380, 1445, 1451.] 40s.
Digestum Inforciatum. [Cf. 1380, 1445.] 13s. 4d.
Digestum vetus. [Cf. 1380.] 13s. 4d.
Codex. [Cf. 1380.]£1, 6s. 8d.
Surtees Soc., xlv. 76
1432 Dr. Thomas Gascoigne gave 6 books to Lincoln
College, value £17, 10s.
Clark, Linc. Coll. (Coll. Hist.)
1438 Thomas Aquinas super primum Sententiarum £1
Thomas Aquinas in secundum Sententiarum £1, 6s. 8d.
James10, xxiv.
1441 Tabula super Senecam et Boetium de Consolat. et
de disciplina scholarium 1s. 8d.
James10, xxiv.
1442 One part of Lyra £3, 6s. 8d.
James10, xxiv.
1443 27 volumes bought from John Paston's Exors. for
King's Hall, Cambridge. £8, 17s. 4d.
1443 For an old book, Postillae super Lucam 2s.
James10, xxiv.
1443 Petrus de formâ dictandi. [Cf. 1395.] 1s. 8d.
Mun. Acad., 532
1445 Book of philosophy, cum tractatibus Alberti 13s. 4d.
James10, xxiv.
1445 Liber Sextus Decretalium, pledged for. [Cf. 1380, £1, et ob.
1423, 1451.]
Digestum Inforciatum, pledged for. [Cf. 1380, 3s. 4d.
1423.]
* Mun. Acad., 543
1449 Cicero, Rhetoric 3s. 4d.
James10, xxiv.
1451 Petrus de Palude [? in Sententiis] 2s.
Epistles of Seneca ad Lucilium 2s.
Gregory's Sermons 6s. 8d.
Plato, Timaeus 6d.
Digestum vetus. [Cf. 1380, 1423] 4s.
Liber Sextus Decretalium, cum glossa cardinali.
[Cf. 1380, 1445, 1423.] 5s.
Codex. [Cf. 1423.] 4s.
Bernardus Parmensis de Botone, Casus longus 5s.
Martial 1s.
Anselm, Cur Deus homo. [Cf. 1423.] 2s. 4d.
Decretals of Clement 3s. 4d.
Vetus liber Decretalium 1s. 4d.
* Mun. Acad., 609
1452 Isidore, Etymologies; Bede, Historia
Ecclesiastica 30s.
Augustine, de spiritu et anima, with
the Meditations of S. Bernard, and many
other contents 40s.
Guillelmus Parisiensis de virtutibus 20s.
Bartholomeus Anglicus [Bartholomew de Glanville]
de proprietatibus rerum 6s. 8d.
Pupilla oculi. [There were several books of this
title.] 20s.
Catholicon. [Cf. 1400.] £4
Polichronica 20s.
Historia Scholastica. [Cf. bef. 1300.] 5s.
Lombard's Sentences. [Cf. 1376, 1423.] 16s.
* Surtees Soc., xlv. 132-3
1453 Book by Wyclif 7s. 6d.
Book against Wyclif 3s. 6d.
More's book on Wyclif and other books £2, 2s. 0d.
Rogers, iv. 600
1455 Nicolaus de Gorham super Psalterium, pledged
for £1, 6s. 8d.
James10, xxiv.
1455 Gregory the Great's Works, 157 leaves £3, 6s. 8d.
Library (N. S.), viii. 172
1456 Avicenna, redeemed for £1, 6s. 4d.
James10, xxiv.
1457 Aegidius super Physica 16s. 8d.
James10, xxiv.
1457 Aristotle de animalibus 5s. 6d.
James10, xxiv.
1459 A Holy Legend £10
Rogers, iv. 600
1462 Aristotle, Rhetor. Polit., etc. 8s. 5d.
James10, xxiv.
1462 Map of the world, bought for New College £5
Rogers, iv. 600
1467 Cicero, de Officiis and Ambrosius super eodem 6s.
James10, xxiv.
c. 1468 S. Augustine's Epistles £1, 13s. 4d.
Library (N.S.), viii. 172
1468 Richard Rolle's Meditatio de passione domini 4d.
*Surtees Soc., xlv. 163
1469 Jerome's Epistles £1
James10, xxiv.
1469 Vellum, writing, correcting, illuminating, and
binding a Lectionary in redskin, and cleaning
the book 64s. 3d.
Library, ii. (1890), 243
c. 1470 iij bokes of soffistre 1s. 8d.
A red boke with Hugucio and Papie £1
A boke of Seynt Thomas de Veritatibus 10s.
1 boke of xij chapetyrs of Lyncoln,
and a boke of Safistre 10s.
1 premere (primer?) 2s.
* Gairdner, Paston Letters, vi. 175, 177
1472 Thomas Aquinas, Tabula on works 5s. 4d.
James10, xxv.
1481 Alexander Aphrodisaeus, super libros de Anima £1, 13s. 4d.
Rogers, iv. 600-1
1502 Hugo de Vienna's works in 7 volumes [printed] £2, 6s. 4d.
Rogers, iv. 600-1
1509 A printed legende in paper de usu Saris coueryd
with white lether with ij short claspes of latyn 3s. 4d.
C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo ser., iii. 361
1509 A graile couered with white lether with ij long
claspes £4, 6s. 8d.
A graile couered with white lether having ij
longe claspes 53s. 4d.
A prikesong boke in parchement 13s. 4d.
C. A. S. (N.S.), 8vo ser., iii. 361
c. 1525 Cicero, de Officiis, bought by Thos. Linacre;
now B. M. Reg. 15 A vi. 8d.
James, 519
1531 4 hymnaria for the quire at ⅓ 5s.
Rogers, i. 600-1
1538 1 Statutes of the Kingdom 14s.
Polydore Vergil's history 6s. 8d.
Rogers, i. 600-1
1539 Giorgio della Valle [? Aristotle's Poetics] 10s.
Rogers, iv. 600-1
1540 Map of the World 4s. 0d.
Suidas in Greek [? printed ed. 1499] £1, 12s. 0d.
Erasmus on New Testament 9s.
Rogers, iv. 600-1
1542 Theophylact and Eustathius [? printed ed. 1542] £2, 2s. 0d.
Epiphanius 8s.
Rogers, iv. 600-1
Parchment for, writing, rubrishing and binding a
book called "Domyltone," also rubrishing
Heytesbury's Sophismata. ["Domyltone" was
perhaps one of John of Dumbleton's books] 15s. 4½d.
Hist. MSS., 2nd Rept., App. 129;
Bibliographica, iii. 148
Note.--Many prices of books at Winchester
College, temp. Henry VI will be found in
Archæol. Jour. xv. (1858) 62-74.
WRITING
1346 For writing a Psalter with Kalendar 5s. 6d.
And a "placebo et dirige cum ympnario et
collectario" 4s. 3d.
Surtees Soc., xxxv. 165
1383-4 For writing Abbot Litlington's Missal during
two years £4
Robinson, 7-8
1383-4 Livery for the scribe 20s.
For writing notes (musical notation) in Abbot
Litlington's Missal 3s. 4d.
Robinson, 7-8
1393 Writing 2 Graduals £4, 6s. 8d.
Surtees Soc., xxxv. 130
1397 For writing a Legenda of 34 "quires" 72s.
Surtees Soc., vii. xxvi-xxvii n.
15c. Writing 25 quires at 16d. 33s. 4d.
James3, 234
? 15 c. Writing per quire. 16d.
C. A. S. (N.S.), iii. 398
1430 N. de Lyra transcribed 100 marks
Warton, i. 187 n.
1467 Item, for wrytynge of a quare and demi ... prise
the quayr, xxd. 2s. 6d.
Item, for wrytenge of a calendar 12d.
Item, for notynge (musical notation) of v.
quayres and ij leves, prise of the
quayr, viij[d.] 3s. 7d.
Gairdner, Paston Letters, v. 4
1469 For writing a "litill booke of Pheesyk" 2d.
For writing "the tretys of Werre in iiij books,
which conteyneth lx levis aftir ijd. a leaff" 10s.
For writing "De Regimine Principum, which
conteyneth xlvti leves, aftir a peny a leef,
which is right wele worth" 3s. 9d.
*Gairdner, Paston Letters, v. 2-4
1469 For writing a Lectionary of 18 quires and 9 skins 28s. 4d.
Library, ii. (1890) 243
ILLUMINATING
1374 Church of Norwich paid for illuminating a
Graduale and Consuetudinary £22, 9s.
Merryweather, 36n.
1383-4 For illumination of the large letters in Abbot
Litlington's Missal £22, 0s. 3d.
Robinson, 7-8
1393 Illuminating 2 graduals £2
Surtees Soc., xxxv. 130
1395 Illuminating 3 graduals £2
Surtees Soc., xxxv. 130
1397 Illuminating and binding Legenda of 34 "quires" 30s.
Surtees Soc., vii. xxvi-xxvii n.
1445 Yearly wages of an illuminator at Oxford, four
marks, ten shillings
Mun. Acad., 551
1467 Sir John Howard paid Thomas Lympnour of
Bury St. Edmunds for illuminating, and other
work
For viij. hole vynets [or small miniatures]
prise the vynett, xijd 8s.
Item, for xxj. demi-vynets ... prise the
demi-vynett, iiijd. 7s.
Item, for Psalmes lettres xvc and di' ... the
prise of C. iiijd. [I.e., 1550 at 4d.
a hundred] 5s. 2d.
Item, for p'ms letters lxiijc ... prise of a
C., jd. 5s. 3d.
Item, for floryshynge of capytalls, vc 5d.
Gairdner, Paston Letters, v. 4
1469 For rubrishing a book 3s. 4d.
Gairdner, Paston Letters, v. 4
1469 Illuminating a Lectionary 13s. 6d.
Library, ii. (1890) 243
BINDING
1383-4 Binding Abbot Litlington's Missal 21s.
Robinson, 7-8
1384-5 Covering a great Portiforium 3s. 2d.
Covering a book and making three silver clasps 5s. 8d.
Robinson, 8
1392 Binding seven books 4s. 0d.
O. H. S., 27, Boase, xlviii.
1395 Binding large gradual (York Cathedral) 10s.
Surtees Soc., xxxv. 130
? 15c. Binding (in white skin over wooden boards) 2s.
C. A. S. (N.S.), iii. 398
1412-13 Stitching 67 books at 1½d. a book, with
13d. in addition 9s. 5½d.
Stitching covers of 52 books at 1d. 4s. 4d.
C. A. S. (N.S.), iv. 300-3
1428 Binding Bible in 2 vols. 5s. 3d.
Rogers, iv. 600
1467 Item, for byndynge of the boke [a Psalter or
other liturgical book] 12s.
Gairdner, Paston Letters, v. 4
1469 Binding a Lectionary in redskin, and correcting
the book 5s. 5d.
Library, ii. (1890) 243
Note.--For many prices for binding,
repairing, and chaining books, see
Bibliographical Society's Monograph 13,
p. 18-19.
MATERIALS
A very large number of prices of vellum and parchment might be quoted. These will suffice: (1301) vellum per skin, 1¼d.; (1312-13) 6 doz. parchment, 8s. 8d.; (1358-59) 2 doz. parchment, 6s.; (1359-60) 2½ doz. parchment, 7s. 6d.; (1383-84) 13 doz. vellum, £4, 6s. 8d.; (1395) 12 parchment skins, 5s. 0d.; (1397) vellum per dozen skins, 4s. 6d.; (1412-13) vellum cost a dozen skins 2s. 10d.; (1412-13) 9 skins of parchment 13½d., and 6 skins of parchment, 16d.; (1467) 3 quires of vellum, 5s.; 17 quires for a Lectionary, 10s. 6d.
Skins for binding were sold in (1395) 1 deerskin, 3s. 2d.; (1397) 6 deerskins for processionals, 13s. 4d; (1412-13) 97 calfskins @ 4d. a skin, 82 sheepskins @ 3d., 3 sheepskins for 5d., 12 redskins @ 6d.; (1469) 1 redskin, 5d.