Et, quia ipsum Librum habere
volumus, lx solidos sterlingorum Magistro Johanni de Sovenaisshe
[Sevenashe], Magistro Scolarum nostre Civitatis Exoniensis, pro
ipso Libro tradi fecimus, ut nobis eundem, quamcicius nuncii
securitas affuerit, transmittatis. Libros, eciam,
Theologicos Originales, veteres saltem et raros, ac Sermones
antiquos, eciam sine Divisionibus Thematum, pro nostris usibus
exploretis; scribentes nobis condiciones et precium
eorundem."--O.H.S., 27 Boase, 2.
[6] Robinson, 63.
A library room was built over the east cloister in
1412-13.[1] Probably the building was found necessary on
account of a considerable accession of books, and we hazard
a guess that Grandisson's bequest, received in 1370, formed
the bulk of the accretion. At all events, among the
accounts for the building are charges for 191 chains for
books not secured before. No fewer than 67 books
were also sewed or bound on this same occasion, the
master binder being paid L 6 and his man 36s. 8d. Thus
at the beginning of the fifteenth century--the age of
library building--the capitular hoard at Exeter was furbished
up, newly housed, and arranged.
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