Colophon

A medieval scribe's optional closing note recording their name, place, or date — before title pages existed, one of the few chances a scribe had to leave a personal authorship mark on a manuscript. First encountered in this vault as the hook that led, via a cross-time bridge, to the software easter egg cluster (Weiher, Robinett) as a modern analog of the same impulse. Watching for recurrence before promoting further; no quantitative claim about colophon frequency is recorded here because the originating capture cited a figure (Erik Kwakkel's "roughly one manuscript in seven") without a traceable primary source.

References

• Captures: 10-inbox/raw/2026-08-16-hop-programmer-signature-colophon.md