| Description | These were found as flyleaves or covers of business books for church courts from the 1560s to 1580s. These books were probably supplied ready-bound by local stationers who would have got their binding leaves from the unwanted books of the Cathedral priory or St Augustine's libraries. Later service books are perhaps more likely to have come from local churches than the monasteries. When the bindings were extracted, no record was kept of which volumes they came from. Not all the fragments may have been bindings; 9, 10, 13 are probably bits of books that might have escaped total destruction.
Some fragments were extracted earlier, and are now Add Mss 16, 20, 25, and 32, and others are still in situ: (at KHLC) DCb/J/X.1.8; X.1.9; X.1.10; X.1.11; Y.1.6; Y.2.22; (at LPL) VG 4/5-7; (at KHLC) PRC 49. |