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Et in illuminatioiie et ligatione ejusdem . . xiii^ iiii'^ Item in ii dozevn, ii pellibus de veljTii eruptis pro i. col- lectario, quod incipit secundo folio, " Vicio," continenti xiii quaternos, pretium dosejn, iiii ^ pretium pellis, iiii'^ . . viii^ viii** Et in scriptura notatione, illuniinatione et iigatione ejusdem xsi* Item in 51 dozeyu. illl pellibus empt. pro legenda Integra, quae incipit sec. folio, " quia dixerunt," continenti xxxiil quaternos, pretium dozeyn, iiii s vi*!, pret' pellis. iiii'i, ob. . Ii* Et in scriptura ejusdem legendae . . . Ixxii ' Et in ilium, et ligat. ejusdem .... xxx^ Item in sex dozeyn de veljm emptis pro factura sex proces- sioualium, quorum quodlibet continet xv quaternos, pretium dozeyn, iiii ^ vi '^ . . . • . xxvii * Et in scriptura notatione, illuminatione, et ligatione eorumdem xxiiii ' Item in vii pellibus cervinis emptis pro libris prsedictis cooperiendis ...... xiii' iiii" 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' " Papise " " empto hoc anno de Magistro .Toanni Melton^ in festo Sc'e Katerinse et A.D. mccccix, xxxiii* iii"! In dicto libro et i altero libro voc. " Hugonis" ^ pelle vitulina cooperiendis cum clapsula ad idem, xx ^. 1 Henry V. In soluto cuidam scriptori de Abbatia Sc'e Marie pro scriptura ll qua- ternorum de libro Moralium abbreviato per Magistrum Joannem Elmer : ' capienti pro scriptura cujuslibet quaterni, ii' iiii"!. In soluto eidem scriptori pro scriptura xvi quaternorum et dimidii de libro prjedicto Moralium et al' : qui capit pro quolibet quaterno, ii ' ; simul cum v ', pro ix quaternis pergameni ab eodem emptis pro dictis libris, xxxviii '. 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 diio Joanni Smyth pro duobus partibus de Lira abbre atis per magistrum Job. Elmer, ix^ vi^ viii'*. In una alia parte de Lira super quatuor evangelistas non abbreviata : emp. Iiii ' iiii ^. In uno libro decre- - This was probably the "Elementarium attend to. He was also one of the execu- doctrinse, sive vocabularium " of Papias tors of the Bishop's Will, the Grammarian, a native of Lombardy, 6 Nicholas de Lira, bom at Lire, in the called VocabuUsta, from this work. He diocese of E^Teux, of Jewish parents, flourished about the middle of the 11th On his conversion to Christianity, he century. assumed the habit of the Minorites in the ^ John Melton was the first Head convent of VemeuiL He was afterwards Master of the School. appointed a Professor of Theology in the ■• Probably a work of Hugo de Sancto University of Paris, where be deUvered Victore. lectures on the Holy Scriptures, in the ' John Elmer was deputed, together with Franciscan convent, and afterwards pub- Dr. Nicholas Wykeham, a.d. 1402 — 3, to lished two commentaries, one on the text administer the affairs of the See of Win- of Scripture ; the other, practical. He was Chester, which the age and infirmities of selected as one of the executors of Joan of Wm. of Wykeham rendered him unable to France. He died a.d. 1 340. Cave. Hist. Lit.