Nihil in mundo participatur per fontem scripturae divinae sapientiae!
Alkonbas accidit, tam cito finis bibliothecae, qui in tenebris, et memoriam eius redacta cadunt in mille partes tenebris involutam.
Maurus chorum vulgus quidam dicunt in vinculis, inducti ; flagellabatur, habentem in capite suo arietem cornibus. In superliminari scriptus esset verba "vere mendacium fornicem." Maurus suspensus est robustus funiculum per unum crurem.
Hæc sunt omnes fabulas et superstitiones et ultra. Sed tamen casu dicere nefas est et finis loquitur S. Alkonbas.
Tamen et ipsi locuti sunt casus, qui postea horrore de bibliotheca Alkonbas.
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O Alkonbas! O thy devotion!
In thy
destruction, nothing is left of that fountainhead of God’s wisdom shared into
the world through His scriptures!
The end
befell the books of Alkonbas so quickly, that the memories of its fall are
shrouded in darkness and fragmented into a thousand fragments of blackness.
Some say
that the mob was led by a dancing Moor in chains, and whipped, having the horns
of a ram upon his head. At the lintel was carved the words "false
arch", and the Moor was hanged from a stout cord by one leg. All these fables are superstitions, and no
more. But they speak nevertheless of
the fall of the Library of Alkonbas and the horror that came thereafter.
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