"Ego Johannes Exōn Epūs, nescio ubi est domus predicta, nec
hunc librum abstuli, sed modo legitimo adquisivi."
Also page 283.:
"Liber B. Mariæ de Camberone: si quis eum abstulerit, anathema
esto."
In the preface to a late publication (1853), _Fragments of the Iliad of
Homer from a Syrian Palimpsest_, edited by William Cureton, the editor
tells us:
"The Palimpsest Manuscript, in which I discovered these
fragments of a very ancient copy of the Iliad of Homer,
formed a part of the library of the Syrian convent of St.
Mary Deipara, in the Valley of the Ascetics, or the Deserts
of Nigritia. On the first page of the last leaf the following
notice occurs: 'This volume of my Lord Severus belongs to the
reverend and holy my Lord Daniel, Bishop of the province of
Orrhoa (Edessa), who acquired it from the armour of God, when
he was down in the province of the city of Amida, for his own
benefit, and that of every one that readeth it. But under the
curse of God is he whosoever steals it, or hides or removes it
... or tears, or erases, or cuts off this memorial from it,
for ever. And through our Lord Jesus Christ may he who readeth
it pray for the same Daniel, that he may find mercy in the day
of judgment! Yea, and Amen, and Amen. And upon the sinner who
wrote it, may there be mercy in the day of judgment! Amen. But
at the end of his life he bequeathed it to this sacred convent
of my Lord Silas, which is in Tarug (a city of Mesopotamia),
for the sake of the remembrance of himself and of the dead
belonging to him. May the Lord have mercy upon him in the day
of judgment! Amen. Whosoever removeth this volume from this
same convent, may the anger of the Lord overtake him in both
worlds to all eternity! Amen.'"