Nascitur, abluitur, patitur, descendit at ima
Surgit et ascendit, veniens discernere cuncta."


In another this:-


"Sacramenta ecclesiae:-
Abluo, fumo, cibo, piget, ordinat, uxor et ungit."


I will conclude these notes on MS. Bibles with the following
colophon from a copy written in Italy in the fifteenth century:-


"Finito libro vivamus semper in Christo -
Si semper in Christo carebimus ultimo leto.
Explicit Deo gratias; Amen. Stephanus de
Tantaldis scripsit in pergamo."


2. The "Psalter" of the thirteenth century is usually to be
considered a forerunner of the "Book of Hours." It always contains,
and usually commences with, a Calendar, in which are written against
certain days the "obits" of benefactors and others, so that a well-
filled Psalter often becomes a historical document of high value and
importance. The first page of the psalms is ornamented with a huge
B, which often fills the whole page, and contains a representation
of David and Goliath ingeniously fitted to the shape of the letter.
At the end are usually to be found the hymns of the Three Children,