"Qui scripsit scribat. Vergilius spe domini vivat."


Vergilius was, no doubt, in this case the scribe. The Latin and the
writing are often equally crabbed. In the Bodleian there is a Bible
with this colophon -


"Finito libro referemus gratias Christo m.cc.lxv. indict. viij.
Ego Lafracus de Pacis de Cmoa scriptor scripsi."


This was also written in Italy. English colophons are often very
quaint--"Qui scripsit hunc librum fiat collocatus in Paradisum," is
an example. The following gives us the name of one Master Gerard,
who, in the fourteenth century, thus poetically described his
ownership:-


"Si Ge ponatur--et rar simul associatur -
Et dus reddatur--cui pertinet ita vocatur."


In a Bible written in England, in the British Museum, there is a
long colophon, in which, after the name of the writer--"hunc librum
scripsit Wills de Hales,"--there is a prayer for Ralph of Nebham,
who had called Hales to the writing of the book, followed by a date-
-"Fes. fuit liber anno M.cc.i. quarto ab incarnatione domini." In
this Bible the books of the New Testament were in the following
order:- the Evangelists, the Acts, the Epistles of S. Peter, S.