Prices of Books: An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different PeriodsWheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin)
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Prices of Books: An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods
Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin)
Books -- Prices -- History
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
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£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
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£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
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£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 2-1/2d. the quaternion.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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