---
title: "Colophon"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "term"
status: "watching"
canonical_name: "colophon"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-16T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["easter egg","diplomatics","authorship"]
seek_code_commit: "17d9798"
---


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 [[entity-easter-egg|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