Note 25 — ANNALS OF THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY.
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Plenus-Amoris, or Fullalove, seems to have been the name of a family of scribes. But the expression seems often also to have been used for the mere sake of rhyme. In the colophon of a translation of Alan Chartier in Rawl. A. 338, are these lines:—
'Nomen scriptoris, Dei gracia, Plenus Amoris: Careat meroris Deus det sibi omnibus horis.'
Peter Plenus-Amoris was the scribe of Fairfax 6; Thomas, of Univ. Coll. MS. 142; William, of All Souls' 51; Geoffrey, of Sloane 513 (Brit. Mus.) In the following instances the name appears to be used only rhythmically:—
'Nomen scriptoris est Jhon Wilde plenus amoris.'—(Rawlinson B. 214.)
'Nomen scriptoris Jon. semper plenus amoris, Esteby cognomen, cui semper det Deus homen' (sic).—(Bodl. 643.)