| 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 | |
| £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 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. each book,” and that “a transcript in folio by this Reynbold of part of Duns Scotus on the Sentences is in both Merton and Balliol College Libraries at Oxford, one dated 1451.”17
Sir John Fenn quotes in illustration of one of the Paston Letters the account of Thomas, a limner or illuminator of manuscripts residing at Bury St. Edmunds, against Sir John Howard of Stoke by Neyland in Suffolk (afterwards Duke of Norfolk), dated July 1467.