Ch. 5

 Hic versus vario colore dispar.

 The verses of hrabanus are these:

musacitastudiogaudensnuncdicerenumen
nostracupitparitercarmineetalloquiis
donapatrissummiquelargusreddiditorbi
regisetaltithronisanctatrophacasimul
quaecruxestsacracrucifixinumineplena
ommibusaptabonisstirpsvenerandasatis
hancegopauperegenusinopsenorelaquela
temptavihicfamulussonsdareethocoriar
necmefactapiantquoddignummuneretanto
meforeadhoccredamsicquoqementeprobum
sedmihilargadeibonitasspesmaximavoti
estquaemepromptumlausdabatexhilarans
pauperisetviduaenonsprevitraraminuta
sedtulitipsaprobansarbiteromnitenens
atqueorbedominansqisancitsolusetunus
cunctavenustabonahanclaudebeavitamor
mandatumveterenempeestetlegequibusqe
munerautaptadarenttemplaadhonestadei
parsdeditargentumparsaurimuneraclara
parstribuitgemmasparsqoqetinctadedit
lignaoleumqidampigmentaquecaradedere
multaqmagnadomusmonstratubiquemicans
astaliisetastulerantpilosquecaprarum
necfuerantspretihidonaferendodeohaec
quapropterrogitonummatumdivesutistio
viliacumportemhincspernerenollitonus
ipselicetgazasinmensasconferatamplis
agminibusfultustemplaonerandadeihinc
hisegononmotusconturbornamimpievultu
sedgratulansspeculororesceredonasibi
illequoqueexosauthabeatmeamuneranolo
sedmagisessesciatqualiacunquedeihaec
exprobratipsedeoqidespicitaceregenum
cujusegenushicestcujusetomnishomoest
enqantumtribuotribuitmihijesusamator
sintsuafactapiehiccunctaquehicrapiat

The letters enclosed within lines and distributed here and there throughout the space, the first, eighth, fifteenth, twenty-second, twenty ninth, and thirty sixth or or last, letters of the first, eighth, fifteenth, twenty-second, twenty ninth, and thiry sixth or lst, horizontal lines, produce the following word:

Magnentius Hrabanus Maurus hoc Opus fecit  (1)