Et in illuminatione et ligatione ejusdem ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | xiiis iiiid |
Item in II dozevn, II pellibus de velym emptis pro i. collectario, quod incipit secundo folio, "Vicio," continenti XIII quaternos, pretium doseyn, iiiis pretium pellis, iiiid ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | viiis viiid |
Et in scriptura notatione, illuminatione et ligatione ejusdem ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | xxis |
Item in XI dozeyn. IIII pellibus empt. pro legenda Integra, quæ incipit sec. folio, "quia dixerunt," continenti XXXIII quaternos, pretium dozeyn, iiiis vid, pret' pellis. iiiid, ob. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | lis |
Et in scriptura ejusdem legendæ ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | lxxiis |
Et in ilium. et ligat. ejusdem ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | xxxs |
Item in sex dozeyn de velym emptis pro factura sex processionalium, quorum quodlibet continet XV quaternos, pretium dozeyn, iiiis vid ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | xxviis |
Et in scriptura notatione, illuminatione, et ligatione eorumdem ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | xxxiiis |
Item in VII pellibus cervinis emptis pro libris prædictis cooperiendis ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ | xiiis iiiid |
The following are specimens of the cost of other books for the use of the library and school.
10, 11 Henry IV.
In I libro grammaticali voc' "Papiæ"[1] empto hoc anno de Magistro Joanni Melton[2] in festo Sc'e Katerinæ et A.D. MCCCCIX, xxxiiis iiid
In dicto libro et I altero libro voc. "Hugonis"[3] pelle vitulina cooperiendis cum clapsula ad idem, xxd.
1 Henry V.
In soluto cuidam scriptori de Abbatia Sc'e Marie pro scriptura II quaternorum de libro Moralium abbreviato per Magistrum Joannem Elmer:[4] capienti pro scriptura cujuslibet quaterni, iis iiiid.
In soluto eidem scriptori pro scriptura XVI quaternorum et dimidii de libro prædicto Moralium et al': qui capit pro quolibet quaterno, iis; simul cum vs, pro IX quaternis pergameni ab eodem emptis pro dictis libris, xxxviiis.
The date of the roll, from which the following extracts on the same
subject are taken, is obliterated ; but it belongs to the reign of Henry V.
In soluto dño Joanni Smyth pro duobus partibus de Lira[5] abbreviatis per magistrum Job. Elmer, ixl vis viiid. In una alia parte de Lira super quatuor evangelistas non abbreviata : emp. liiis iiiid. In uno libro decre-
- ↑ This was probably the "Elementarium doctrinæ, sive vocabularium" of Papias the Grammarian, a native of Lombardy, called Vocabulista, from this work. He flourished about the middle of the 11th century.
- ↑ John Melton was the first Head Master of the School.
- ↑ Probably a work of Hugo de Sancto Victore.
- ↑ John Elmer was deputed, together with Dr. Nicholas Wykeham, A.D. 1402—3, to administer the affairs of the See of Winchester, which the age and infirmities of Wm. of Wykeham rendered him unable to attend to. He was also one of the executors of the Bishop's Will.
- ↑ Nicholas de Lira, born at Lire, in the diocese of Evreux, of Jewish parents. On his conversion to Christianity, he assumed the habit of the Minorites in the convent of Verneuil. He was afterwards appointed a Professor of Theology in the University of Paris, where be delivered lectures on the Holy Scriptures, in the Franciscan convent, and afterwards published two commentaries, one on the text of Scripture; the other, practical. He was selected as one of the executors of Joan of France. He died A.D. 1340. Cave. Hist. Lit.
