(Vol. viii. pp. 64. 153. 472.)
In the famous _Rouen Missal_, called St. Guthlac's book, is the following
inscription in the handwriting of Robert, Bishop of London, and afterwards
Archbishop of Canterbury, who was formerly head of the monastery of
Jumieges, to which the book belonged, and where, in 1053, he died:
"Quem si quis vi vel dolo seu quoquo modo isti loco subtraxerit, animae
suae propter quod fecerit detrimentum patiatur, atque de libro
viventium deleatur, et cum justis non scribatur."
John Grollier had on all his books inscribed:
"Portio mea, domine, sit in terra viventium;"
and underneath:
"Io. Grollierii et Amicorum."
Henry de Rantzan wrote a decree for his library, of which here is the
fulminatory clause:
"Libros partem ne aliquam abstulerit,
Extraxerit, clepserit, rapserit,
Concerpserit, corruperit,
Dolo malo,
Illico maledictus,
Perpetuo execrabilis,
Semper detestabilis,
Esto, maneto."
See Dibdin's bibliographical works.