de calamitas et aedifico (of loss and creation)
by Caligatus filius Lagopus scholae Savacion.
Calamitas is a traditional "traveling" book. The plain, though sturdy, wooden cover protects a short, (32 page) accordion-fold text that is bound with leather straps. Texts like this date back to the founders. Though often of little use for research, some collectors search them out for historical value. I believe Antrum has a large number dating back to the founding of the order, including some in the hand of Aegidius, Cristofer and Luke.
As is common in the form, each page contains the text of a single spell. Calamitas is in simple latin Cholaeic, unlike many traveling books are encoded or in short form only understood by the writer. The spells included are all of creo on one side, and perdo on the other. The creo spells are oriented toward building and healing, including spells of fortification from Laying the Foundations and Sing blood and the sardonic Quick cure for death first found in >Rolling the bones. The perdo selection is evenly divided between seigecraft and warcraft including Unbind the Earth from Ferociter venustus (Wild grace).
Despite the narrow scope of this text, it seems to be enjoying high circulation, with three copies of the Annalum copy having been requested in the past year.
More pretty.
I like the accordion-bound travel books—the more un-bookish books, the better, sez me. Though I note the reviewer refers to an odd tongue by the name of “Latin.” I do hope that’s not some Dawnish alphabetickal trickery.