INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS.
(Vol. vii., p. 127.)
Your correspondent Balliolensis, at p. 127. of the current volume of "N. & Q.," gives several forms of inscriptions in books. The following may prove interesting to him, if not to the generality of your readers.
A MS. preserved in the Bibliothèque Sainte Généviève—it appears to have been the cellarer's book of the ancient abbey of that name, and to have been written about the beginning of the sixteenth century—bears on the fly-sheet the name of "Mathieu Monton, religieux et célérier de l'église de céans," with the following verses:
"Qui ce livre cy emblera,
Propter suam maliciam
Au gibet pendu sera,
Repugnando superbiam
Au gibet sera sa maison,