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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 9911504, member: 8267&quot;]Yes, it is Latin. The blue S at the bottom of the page is the beginning of chapter 17 from the Book of Job: &quot;Spiritus adtenuabitur dies mei breviabuntur&quot;. The chapter continues on the back of the page. The text before the blue S does not correspond to chapter 16 of Job, however. It might be some sort of commentary. But my Latin and paleography are not good enough to make sense of it.</p><p><br /></p><p>This stuff is difficult to read both because of the script and the fact that the scribes used all kinds of abbreviations. But I was able to pick out one phrase on the back of the page - &quot;post tenebras spero lucem&quot; (after darkness I hope for light) - googled that, and it just happens to be a well known phrase from the Vulgate (Latin) version of the Bible.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_tenebras_lux" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_tenebras_lux" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_tenebras_lux</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can find the Vulgate text of Job (the whole Bible, actually), with translation, here-</p><p><a href="https://vulgate.org/ot/job_17.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://vulgate.org/ot/job_17.htm" rel="nofollow">https://vulgate.org/ot/job_17.htm</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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