g Bibliomanical letter in the whole
collection.

[63] Cottonian MS. in the Brit. Mus.--_Claudius_, E. iv. fo. 105, b.

[64] Epist. lxxi. p. 124, Edit. 4to. His words are--"Cum Dominus Rex
Anglorum me nuper ad Dominum Regum Francorum nuntium distinasset,
libri Legum venales Parisius oblati sunt mihi ab illo B. publico
mangone librorum: qui cum ad opus cujusdam mei nepotis idoner
viderentur conveni cum eo de pretio et eos apud venditorem
dismittens, ei pretium numeravi; superveniente vero C. Sexburgensi
Praeposito sicut audini, plus oblulit et licitatione vincens libros
de domo venditories per violentiam absportauit."

[65] Chevillier, Origines de l'Imprimerie de Paris, 4to. 1694, p.
301.

[66] "Actes concernant le pouvoir et la direction de l'Universite de
Paris sur les Ecrivains de Livres et les Imprimeurs qui leur ont
succede comme aussi sur les Libraires Relieurs et Enlumineurs," 4to.
1652, p. 44. It is very rare, a copy was in Biblioth. Teller, No.
132, p. 428. A statute of 1275 is given by Lambecii Comment. de
Augus. Biblioth. Caesarea Vendobon, vol. ii. pp. 252-267. The
booksellers are called "Stationarii or Librarii;" _de Stationariis,
sive Librariis ut Stationarus, qui vulgo appellantur_, etc. See also
_Du Cange_, vol. vi. col. 716.

[67] Chevillier, p. 301, to whom I am deeply indebted in this branch
of my inquiry.

[68] Hist. Lit. de la France, tom. ix. p. 84. Chevillier, p. 302.

[69] The form of oath is given in full in the statute of 1323, and
in that of 1342, Chevillier.

[70] Du Breuil, Le Theatre des Antiq. de Paris, 4to. 1612, p. 608.

[71] _Ibid._, Hist. Lit. de la France, tom. ix. p. 84.

[72] Chevillier, p. 303.

[73] Martene Anecd. tom. i. p. 502. Hist. Lit. de la France, ix. p.
142.

[74] Chevillier, 319, who gives a long list, printed from an old
register of the University.

[75] Chevillier, 303.

[76] Vet. Stat. Universit. Oxoniae, D. fol. 75. Archiv. Bodl.

[77] The Church of Norwich paid L22, 9s. for illuminating a Graduale
and Consuetudinary in 1374.

[78] Isidore Orig., cap. ii.--Jerome, in his Preface to Job, writes,
"_Habeant qui volunt veteres libros, vel in membranes purpurus auro
argentique colore purpuros aurum liquiscit in literis._" Eddius
Stephanus in his Life of St. Wilfrid, cap xvi., speaks of "Quatuor
Evangeliae de auro purissimo in