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CHAPTER III PRICES OF MANUSCRIPT BOOKS

Martyrologium.
£s.d.
7 quaternions of vellum at 8d.048
Payment to the scribe0150
Illumination0510
Binding022
Coloured initials008
£184
Antiphonale.
34 quaternions of larger and more expensive sheets of vellum at 15d226
Payments to the scribe330
Adding to the musical notation106
Coloured initials010
Illumination01511
Binding050
£7711

(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 2½d. the quaternion.

Mr. Falconer Madan tells us that “in 1453 John Reynbold agreed at Oxford to write out the last three books of Duns Scotus’s Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, in quarto, for 2s. 2d.

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