1.1 Map of places mentioned in the text (Low Countries) 14
1.2 Colophon of the Liber bibliae moralis by Petrus Berchorius, the earliest book printed by Pafraet 19
1.3 The printing device of Jacob van Breda, (c.1515) containing the text ‘Prelu[m] Jacobi’, ‘Jacob’s press’ 21
2.1 Photograph of the Portail des Libraires of Rouen Cathedral by Médéric Mieusement, 1886 35
2.2 Thomas Le Forestier, Le Regime contre epidimie et pestilence (Rouen: Jacques Le Forestier, 21 October 1495), longer version, leaf a1r (title page, with woodcut image of a man seated at his desk) 44
2.3 Thomas Le Forestier, Le Regime contre epidimie et pestilence (Rouen: Jacques Le Forestier, 21 October 1495), shorter version, leaf a1r (title page, with uninked imprint of woodcut image of a man seated at his desk) 45
2.4 Sixteenth-century inscription ‘De cabourg’ in Thomas Le Forestier, Le regime contre epidimie et pestilence (Rouen: Jacques Le Forestier, 21 October 1495), longer version, leaf a1v 46
2.5 Late fifteenth- or sixteenth-century marginal note ‘Medicus sit | Astronomus’ in Thomas Le Forestier, Tractatus contra pestilentiam thenasmonem et dissinteriam (Rouen: Guillaume Le Talleur, after 18 December 1490), leaf f2r 47
3.1 Quaderneto de li libri lassati a Padoa in custodia de ser Domeneco da san Germano, ff. 1v–2r 53
3.2 Distribution by genre of the editions listed in the Quaderneto 59
3.3 Distribution by printing places of the editions listed in the Quaderneto 62
3.4 Comparison of prices between the Quaderneto and the Zornale for the editions shared by the two documents 64
3.5 Comparison of prices between the Quaderneto and the Zornale for the edition of Petri Mocenici imperatoris gesta (Venice, 1477) 65
3.6 Comparison of prices between the Quaderneto and the Zornale for different editions of the same text 67
4.1 The knotwork frame consists of straight and curved single tools; NSZL, Cod. Lat. 422. Then compound knotwork motif tools; NSZL Inc. 182b, Inc. 996 and RMK III 161/3 81
4.2 A bookbinding from a workshop in Werden; NSZL, Inc. 502 83
4.3 A bookbinding from a workshop in Florence; NSZL, Cod. Lat. 415 84
4.4 A bookbinding from a workshop in Košice; NSZL Inc. 1344 87
4.5 A bookbinding from a workshop in Levoča; NSZL Inc. 558c 89
4.6 A leather corvina binding from the royal workshop in Buda; NSZL, Cod. Lat. 370 91
4.7 A bookbinding from a workshop in Bratislava; NSZL Inc. 558a/4 95
4.8 A bookbinding from a workshop in Buda; NSZL Inc. 995 99
5.1 Fig. Rood and Hunt bindery. Back cover overlaid on new binding decorated with Gibson tools 44–51. One of the very few smaller format Priory books surviving. Ushaw XVIII.A.4.1 109
5.2 A characteristic long-fingered manicule usually associated with the Durham monk John Manby Ushaw XVIII.A.4.1 110
5.3 Half-stamp binder. Front cover overlaid over new binding showing marks of clasps and the lamb and flag, pelican in piety, pointing finger and fleur-de-lys stamps as well as flambeau and floral stamps. Ushaw XVII.E.4.1 115
5.4 Ownership inscription on flyleaf for monk Nicholas Marley dateable to before 1539 when Durham Priory was dissolved. Ushaw XVII.E.4.1 116
6.1 Fols. 178v–179r 128
6.2 Fol. 94r (Artist A) 130
6.3a Fol. 217r (Artist B) 131
6.3b Fol. 200r (Artist B) 132
6.4 Fol. 256r (Artist B*) 133
6.5 Fol. 510r (Artist C) 134
6.6 Fols. 538v–539r. Incipit page of Book V showing major initial excision 136
7.1 The Audley ex dono inscription in Nicolaus de Lyra, Postilla super totam Bibliam (Cologne, not after 1483). Lincoln College K.8.13 leaf aiiir 147
7.2 An Audley volume bound by the Octagonal Rose Binder. Lincoln College K.8.26, upper board 151
7.3 The work of an English incunable artist in Audley’s copy of Flavius Blondus, Roma instaurata (Verona, 1481–82). Lincoln College K.8.10, leaf a1v 153
7.4 The Lincoln College election register from 1543. Lincoln College LC/R/1 leaf 22r 157
7.5 Johannes de Bromyard, Summa praedicantium (Nuremberg, 1485) rebound for Lincoln College by Roger Barnes. Lincoln College K.10.1, upper board 160
8.1 Guild’s Rolewinck, with the manuscript Scottish chronicle added below the printed text, and annotations on the text with manicula. SAUL Typ GC.A79.GR 176
8.2 Wedderburn’s copy of Valesco de Tarenta, showing the John Chambre inscription and the recipe for Dr Steven’s Water. SAUL Typ FL.A90HT 189
10.1 Bookplate of the Grove-Hills collection 223
11.1 William Beattie 229
11.2 Paulus Orosius, Le premier volume de Orose (Paris: Pierre Le Rouge Pour Anthoine Verard, 1491) NLS Inc.263 235
11.3 [Horae: ad usum Parisiensem] (Paris: Philippe Pigouchet, for Toussaint de Montjay, 1491) NLS Inc.273.5 242