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.16
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.