A very large number of prices of vellum and parchment might be quoted. These will suffice: (1301) vellum per skin, 1¼d.; (1312-13) 6 doz. parchment, 8s. 8d.; (1358-59) 2 doz. parchment, 6s.; (1359-60) 2½ doz. parchment, 7s. 6d.; (1383-84) 13 doz. vellum, £4, 6s. 8d.; (1395) 12 parchment skins, 5s. 0d.; (1397) vellum per dozen skins, 4s. 6d.; (1412-13) vellum cost a dozen skins 2s. 10d.; (1412-13) 9 skins of parchment 13½d., and 6 skins of parchment, 16d.; (1467) 3 quires of vellum, 5s.; 17 quires for a Lectionary, 10s. 6d.
Skins for binding were sold in (1395) 1 deerskin, 3s. 2d.; (1397) 6 deerskins for processionals, 13s. 4d; (1412-13) 97 calfskins @ 4d. a skin, 82 sheepskins @ 3d., 3 sheepskins for 5d., 12 redskins @ 6d.; (1469) 1 redskin, 5d.
LIST OF CERTAIN CLASSIC AUTHORS FOUND IN MEDIEVAL CATALOGUES
This list is brief, but it should be long enough to show clearly what Greek and Latin authors were read in the Middle Ages, and to indicate roughly their comparative popularity. A note has been made of only one copy of a work found at a particular place at a certain time; often there were duplicates, sometimes many copies: for example, consult Appendix C, under date _c._ 1170.
The following abbreviations are used: August. Fr. York = Augustinian Friary, York; C. U. L. = Cambridge University Library; Cant. Coll. = Canterbury College, Oxford; Ch. Ch. C. = Christ Church, Canterbury; Durh. = Durham Priory; Lanthony = Lanthony Priory, nr. Gloucester; Ox. U. L. = Oxford University Library; S. Cath. H. = S. Catharine’s College; Rochester = S. Andrew’s Priory, Rochester; S. Aug. C. = S. Augustine’s Monastery, Canterbury; S. Mart. Dov. = S. Martin’s Priory, Dover. Other abbreviations are self-explanatory.
AESCHINES.--_Orations_ (1443, Ox. U. L.).
ARISTOTLE.--(8 cent., York; 1248, Glastonbury; 1315, Durh.; _c._ 1387, New Coll.; 1418, Peterhouse). _Organon_ (_c._ 1170, Ch. Ch. C.; 1202, Rochester; _c._ 1300, Ch. Ch. C.; 1372, August. Fr. York; _c._ 1385, Pembr. Coll.; 1389, S. Mart. Dov.; 1391 and 1395, Durh.; 1435 and 1473, C. U. L.; 1452, King’s Coll. Camb.; _c._ 1497, S. Aug. C.; 1524, Cant. Coll.; _c._ 1526, Syon). _Topica_ (bef. 13 cent., Reading; 1372, August. Fr. York; 1387, Exeter Coll.; 1448, Hospital of S. Mary within Cripplegate, London). _De Sophisticis elenchis_ (bef. 13 cent., Reading). _Natural sciences_ (1274, Peterborough; _c._ 1300, Ch. Ch. C.; 14 cent., Ramsey; 1435 and 1473, C. U. L.; _c._ 1497, S. Aug. C., _de nova translacione_; 1524, Cant. Coll.; _c._ 1526, Syon). _Physica_ (_c._ 1300, Ch. Ch. C.; 14 cent., Ramsey; 1372, August. Fr. York; 1391 and 1395, Durh.; 1435, C. U. L.; 1452, King’s Coll. Camb.; _c._ 1497, S. Aug. C.; 1508, Ch. Ch. C.; 1524, Cant. Coll.). _Meteorologica_ (1435 and 1473, C. U. L.). _Historia animalium_ (_c._ 1300, Ch. Ch. C., _de animalibus_; 1372, August. Fr. York, _de animalibus_; 1389, S. Mart. Dov., _de natura animalium_; 1473, C. U. L.; 1520, Wm. Grocyn, _de animalibus_). _De generatione animalium_ (_c._ 1300, Ch. Ch. C.; 1443, Ox. U. L.). _De anima_ (_c._ 1300, Ch. Ch. C.; 1372, August. Fr. York; 1439, Ox. U. L.; _c._ 1497, S. Aug. C.; 1524, Cant. Coll.; _c._ 1526, Syon). _Metaphysica_ (_c._ 1300, Ch. Ch. C.; 1372, August. Fr. York; 1452, King’s Coll. Camb.; 1473, C. U. L.; 1487, Pembr. Coll.; _c._ 1497, S. Aug. C.; 1524, Cant. Coll.; _c._ 1526, Syon). _Ethica_ (_c._ 1300, Ch. Ch. C.; 1372, August. Fr. York; 1387, Exeter Coll.; 1391, Durh.; 1428, Pembr. Coll.; 1439, Ox. U. L.; 1452, King’s Coll. Camb.; 1473, C. U. L.; 1475, S. Cath. H.; 1487, Pembr. Coll.; _c._ 1497, S. Aug. C.; 1508, Ch. Ch. C.; 1524, Cant. Coll., _noviter translatus_; _c._ 1526, Syon). _Magna Moralia_ (1487, Pembr. Coll.; _c._ 1526, Syon). _Politica_ (_c._ 1428, Pembr. Coll.; 1439, Ox. U. L.; 1452, King’s Coll. Camb.; 1487, Pembr. Coll.; _c._ 1497, S. Aug. C.; 1508, Ch. Ch. C.; 1524, Cant. Coll.; _c._ 1526, Syon). _Rhetorica_ (_c._ 1300, Ch. Ch. C.; 1372, August. Fr. York; 1475, S. Cath. H.; 1487, Pembr. Coll.; _c._ 1497, S. Aug. C.; 1508, Ch. Ch. C.; 1524, Cant. Coll.; _c._ 1526, Syon). _Problemata_ (1435 and 1473, C. U. L.; 1520, Wm. Grocyn; _c._ 1526, Syon). _Oeconomica_ (1372, August. Fr. York).