At the meeting on July 11th, 1659, "The library keep brought in a Catalogue of the bookes & Benefactors names fairly written in a parchment booke; For the wrighting wherof hee pd to the cleark 7s; For the repaymt of wch monye it was aggreed every minister should pay viijd: wch monye was paid by as many as were then present." This catalogue or "Donation Book" is a folio volume measuring 14 3/4 by 9.5 inches, and is bound in rough calf, with three small brass clasps. Later, in the Minute Book it is generally referred to as the Vellum Book. In it are entered in chronological order the names of the donors, the date of each gift, brief author and title entries of the books, and frequently their date and place of publication. The entries are all very clearly written, from the date of the first donation in 1608, the year of inauguration, to 1737. Facsimiles of the title-page, with the initials "J.S." in the lower corners, and two typical pages face this page. The lettering of these pages is characteristic of the period, and shows the decadence of the art of manuscript writing. [Picture: The Vellum Book. Title-page and two other pages of the Donation Book begun in 1659] In the "Extracts from the Court Books of the City of Norwich, 1666-1688," edited by Mr. Walter Rye, there is one on Jan. 15, 1669, stating that "Mr. Thos. Morly, clerk, keeper of the Library of the City, brought in a catalogue of all the books there," but there is no reference to this in the Library Minute Book. On January 12th, 1673, however, the ministers "did appoynt yt Mr Norgate should agt their next meeting bring in a Catalogue of the Bookes to be dd to the Court and yt he shall see yt the Bookes given to the Library in his time be fayrely written in the Vellam-booke appoynted to yt purpose." It is evident, therefore, that reports regarding the stock of books had to be made to the Court.