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=== Library === The Covenant library - note that compared to a covenant in the middle ages, we're rather better off, thanks to printing! We have a large library of printed mundane books, effectively acting as a Summa on Artes Liberales, Civil and Canon Law, Latin, Greek, Common Law, Philosophaie, Natural Philosophy, Medicine and Theology of level 4, quality 7. There are also roughly three tractatus for each Academic ability, with quality 8. (Incidentally, Civil and Canon Law applies to French and Spanish parts of the New World, whereas Common Law applies to the British parts.) We also have ''An Introduction to the Language of the Ancient Israelities, Known As Hebrew, and A Delineation of Its Major and Minor Portions'', which is a summa on Hebrew, level 2, quality 5, a copy of The Prince, which is a tractatus on Leadership and Guile, quality 10, various books about the Americas and the Indians, collectively acting as a Summa of level 2, quality 6 for Indian Lore or Area Lore (New World). In the Hermetic library, we have ''The Wisdom of Bonisagus'', the standard text of the Order, printed privately in five hundred copies in Geneva in 1705, and based on three decades' work by several members of House Bonisagus. It acts as a Summa for all the Arts, level 10, quality 10, and also contains laboratory notes for every spell in the basic 5th edition rulebook, up to the seventh magnitude (level 35.) and notes towards their Mastery. (Acting as tractatus, quality 6, for the Mastery ability of each rulebook spell.) It comes in thirty-five massive volumes, one for each Art plus one for the spells related to each Form, plus one for Mastery of each of the spells. (So, for instance, two different magi couldn't both learn a Terram spell in the same season, but one could study Terram and the other learn a spell.) Less intimidating is Notatus of Tremere's ''On the Techniques: An Introduction'', which is a Summa for all 5 techniques, level 5, quality 14. A prized possession is ''The Full Understanding of the Senses'', a fourteenth century text given to us by our parent covenant, which is a summa on Imaginem of level 15, quality 12. We also have ''The Fluctuations of the Cosmos'', a Vim summa of level 12, quality 18. We also have some tractatus. ''Burn, My Pretties, Burn'' (Ignem, quality 5), ''Some Notes Towards A Clearer Understanding of the Properties of Gems'' (Terram, quality 9), ''Techniques of Control'' (Rego, quality 11), ''The Anatomy of Fears, Panics, Night Terrors, and Other Horrors'' (Mentem, quality 8), ''Twenty-Two Tree''s (Herbam, quality 8). We also have ''On the Code'', a summa on Code of Hermes (level 3, quality 9), ''The Fay of the Courts of Winter'', a tractatus on Faerie Lore (quality 7), ''The Shield Against All Ills'', a tractatus on Parma Magica (quality 10), ''Striking At the Enemy's Heart'', a tractatus on Penetration (quality 5), and ''On the Stranger Inhabitants of the New Lands'', a tractatus on Magic Lore, quality 8.
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