[Sileni]

Some notes written in manuscripts by medieval monks.

Colophon: a statement at the end of a book containing the scribe or owner’s name, date of completion, or bitching about how hard it is to write a book in the dark ages:
*Oh, my hand
*The parchment is very hairy
*Thank God it will soon be dark
*St. Patrick of Armagh, deliver me from writing
*Now I’ve written the whole thing; for Christ’s sake give me a drink
*Oh fuckin abbot
*Massive hangover
*Whoever translated these Gospels did a very poor job
*Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night
*If someone else would like such a handsome book, come and look me up in Paris, across from the Notre Dame cathedral
*I shall remember, O Christ, that I am writing of Thee, because I am wrecked today
*Do not reproach me concerning the letters, the ink is bad and the parchment scanty and the day is dark
*11 golden letters, 8 shilling each; 700 letters with double shafts, 7 shilling for each hundred; and 35 quires of text, each 16 leaves, at 3 shilling each. For such an amount I won’t write again
*Here ends the second part of the title work of Brother Thomas Aquinas of the Dominican Order; very long, very verbose; and very tedious for the scribe; thank God, thank God, and again thank God
*If anyone take away this book, let him die the death, let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.