+-----------+-----------+------------+------------+----------+------------+ | Ordo | Nomina | Loca | Dicciones |Summa | Numerus | |locacionis.|voluminum. |probacionum.|probatorie. |ffoliorum.|contentorum.| +-----------+-----------+------------+------------+----------+------------+ | 1 |Psalterium | 6 |apprehendite| 105 | 1 | | | vetus | | disci | | | | | glosatum | | | | | | 2 |Prima pars | 4 |cument que | 195 | 2 | | | psalterii| | il lait | | | | | glosata | | | | | | | gallice | | | | | | 3 |Glose super| |nullas | 104 | 2 | | | spalterio| 6 | habebunt | | | | | | | veri | | | +-----------+-----------+------------+------------+----------+------------+
In the second part, or catalogue following the shelf-list, are set out the tier letter, shelf number, book number, short title; then the number of the folio on which each tract in a volume begins, and finally the first words of the tract itself.[273]
Most books were bound by the monks themselves. The commonest materials used for ordinary manuscripts were wooden boards, covered with deerskin and calfskin, either coloured red or used in its natural tint, and parchment usually stained or painted red or purple. Charles the Great authorised the Abbot of St. Bertin to enjoy hunting rights so that the monks could get skins for binding. In mid-ninth century, Geoffroi Martel, Count of Anjou, commanded that the tithe of the roeskins captured in the island of Oléron should be used to bind the books in an abbey of his foundation. Few monastic bindings have been preserved, because many great collectors have had their manuscripts rebound. Several examples of Winchester work remain. Mr. Yates Thompson has a mid-twelfth century manuscript bound in the monastic style, the leather being stamped with cold irons of many curious rectangular shapes. The manuscript of the Winton Domesday has a binding with stamps exactly like those on Mr. Thompson’s book. “At Durham in the last half of the twelfth century there was an equally important school of binding, with some one hundred and fourteen different stamps. The binding for Hugh Pudsey’s Bible has nearly five hundred impressions.”[274] In Pembroke College library an excellent specimen of twelfth century stamped binding remains on MS. 147. Such stamps were small, and frequently of geometrical or floral design, always rudimentary; but animals of the quaintest form--grotesque birds and dragons--were also introduced. A hammer or mallet was employed to obtain an impression from the stamp. Sometimes the oak boards were not covered with skin but were painted.