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=Writing Books=

A character must have a score of at least
five in an Art, or at least two in an Ability,
before she can write a useful book. She must
also have a score of at least five in the language
she wants to write the book in.
Books may be written about any Ability,
including the Mastery Ability of an individual
spell. Learning from books about practical
Abilities requires the reader to practice as well
as read.

==SUMMA SOURCE QUALITY==

Author’s Communication + 6 + bonus

==SUMMA GAIN LIMIT==
Level of summa

==TRACTATUS SOURCE QUALITY==

Author’s Communication + 6

==SUMMAE==

Each summa is described by two factors:
its level, which represents how much knowledge is contained in it, and its quality, representing how well it is written.
When a summa is started, the level of the
finished book is determined. The level may be
chosen freely by the author, up to half of her
score in the appropriate Art or Ability. The
quality of the summa is equal to the author’s
Communication + 6.

If the author chooses to set the level of the
summa below half her score, there is a bonus to
the quality. For an Art, the bonus is one point for
every level by which the summa is dropped. For
an Ability, the bonus is three points for every
level. This bonus cannot exceed the base quality
of the summa, so the final quality cannot be
more than twice the author’s Communication +
bonuses from Virtues + 6.

Once the level is determined, writing
commences. For every season spent writing,
the character accumulates a number of points
equal to his Communication + Language.
When the total of points equals or exceeds the
level of the summa, for Arts, or five times the
level of the summa, for Abilities, the summa is
complete. The level of the book may not be
changed midway through the writing (if the
character improves the Art or Ability, for example). 

Once begun, the book must be finished at
the initial level or not finished at all.
For example, Quintus, who has a score of
24 in Ignem, a Communication of –1 and a
Language of 5, wants to write an Ignem summa.
He decides that the level of the summa will be
twelve, the maximum that he can select. During
the first season of writing he accumulates four
points (his Communication + Language). He
accumulates another four in the second season,
taking him to eight, and four more in the third,
for a total of twelve. This equals the level, so the
book is completed at the end of the third season.
The quality of the summa is 5. If he had chosen
to write a summa at level six, it would have taken
him two seasons, and the quality of the summa
would have been 10, because the bonus from
dropping the level by six points is capped at 5 by
the base quality of the book.


==TRACTATUS==

It takes one season to write a tractatus.
The quality of a tractatus is equal to the
author’s Communication + 6.
A character may only write a total number
of tractatus equal to half her score in an Ability
or one fifth of her score in an Art, rounded up
in both cases.

=COPYING BOOKS=

A character may copy books carefully or
quickly. Copying a tractatus carefully takes one
season. Every season that a character spends
copying a summa carefully, she accumulates
points equal to 6 + her Profession: Scribe score.
When she has accumulated points equal to the
level of the summa, it has been copied. A careful copy has the same quality as the original
book.
A character may copy books quickly at
three times the rate. That is, she may make
three copies of a tractatus (or one copy of each
of three tractatus, and so on) in a season, or she
gains 18 + 3 times her Profession: Scribe score
points towards copying a summa. Books copied
quickly have a quality one lower than the book
copied.

==COPYING CAREFULLY==

1 tractatus per season, or 6 + Profession
(Scribe) points towards a summa.

==COPYING QUICKLY==

Three times as fast as careful copying, copy
Source Quality is 1 lower than copied book.

==CORRUPTED COPIES==

Books copied by people lacking particular
skills become corrupted. In the simplest case,
the scribe omits small marks that are a vital part
of the meaning because he thinks they are
merely ink blots. In more complex cases, he
“corrects” parts of the text, creating gibberish.
A corrupted text is useless.
A character must be able to read and write
the language in which the book is written to
copy it without corrupting it. However, a score
of 3 in the language is sufficient to allow accurate copying.
A character must have a score of at least 1
in the relevant Realm Lore, or the appropriate
Ability, to copy a text about a Supernatural
Ability without corrupting it.
A character must have a score of at least 1
in Magic Theory in order to copy a book about
the Hermetic Arts or Parma Magica without
corrupting it. Scores in the Ability in question
are no substitute in this case.