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CHAPTER III PRICES OF MANUSCRIPT BOOKS

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. each0128
Black ink012
Bottle to hold the ink0010
Vermilion009
The scribe’s “commons” (food) for eighteen weeks0150
Payment to the scribe0134
Corrections and adding coloured initials030
Illumination034
Binding034
Goldsmith’s work (on the binding)100
£3135

Two journeys to London and some smaller items made a total of £3, 15s. 8d.

Martyrologium.
£s.d.
7 quaternions of vellum at 8d.048
Payment to the scribe0150
Illumination0510
Binding022
Coloured initials008
£184
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