TEXT: 21
  Semita Errabunda
  Characteristics: Int +2, Per +1, Pre 0, Com +2, Str
  0, Sta 0, Dex +1, Qik –1
  Size: 0
  Age: 28 (28)
  Decrepitude: 0
  Warping Score: 0
  Confidence Score: 1 (3)
  Virtues and Flaws: Clerk; Puissant Ability: Scribe,
  Educated, Sharp ears; Infamous (heretic), Temperate,
  Weakness for fine books
  Personality Traits: Conscientious +2, Pious +2,
  Aesthetic +1
  Reputations: Heretic 4 (ecclesiastical)
  Combat: Fist: Init -1, Attack +1, Defense -1, Damage
  +0 
  Soak: +0
  Fatigue levels: OK, 0, -1, -3, -5, Unconscious
  Wounds: -1 (1-5), -3 (6-10), -5 (11-15),
  Incapacitated (16-20)
  Abilities: Area lore – his original home 1 (family),
  Area lore - his monastery 3 (personalities), Area lore-
  market town 2 (merchants), Area lore - covenant 2
  (magi), Artes Liberales 3 (grammar), Athletics 1
  (climbing), Awareness 3 (books), Bargain 2 (favors),
  Charm 2 (making excuses), Civil and canon Law 1
  (canon law), Etiquette 2 (clergy), Folk ken 3
  (monastery inhabitants), Guile 2 (excuses), Latin 4
  (ecclesiastical usage), Local language 5 (debate),
  Organisational lore – Benedictines 3 (routine),
  Philosophiae 2 (aesthetics), Profession – scribe 5
  (layout), Stealth 3 (indoors), Teaching 1 (Latin),
  Theology 1 (history)
  Appearance: Jerome is of middling height and build,
  clean-shaven, with tidy, short, fair hair and blue eyes.
  He dresses neatly, but very plainly. He has a monk-
  ish air.
  Jerome was born to a peasant family who sent him at
  the age of seven to live in a Benedictine monastery
  where he received a reasonable basic education. He
  picked things up fairly easily, showing particular
  aptitude with a quill. He had little difficulty accept-
  ing the restricted life amongst the brothers, but
  occasionally he would sneak down to the kitchens to
  find something extra to eat; he was caught and pun-
  ished far less often than he deserved. 
  It was expected that Jerome would take the vows and
  become a monk himself, but he put it off. 
  At about the age of 20, he got hold of Honorius' 'De
  rebus ecclesiasticis' and absorbed some of the ideas
  on predestination, but got it garbled. Unfortunately,
  his head was full of this one day when the Prior
  engaged him in discussion, and Jerome's views dis-
  pleased the Prior so much that he was ordered to
  leave, lest he mislead others.
  Having little knowledge of the world outside the
  monastery, Jerome found it difficult to settle. He
  maintained a temperate life-style and found some of
  what he encountered amongst ordinary people quite
  scandalous. Eventually, while working as a scribe for
  hire in a small town, he met someone from the
  covenant who, after seeing his writing and talking to
  him for a while, invited him to visit the covenant
  with the possibility of being given work there. 
  Jerome's training and skills make him a useful
  scribe. He is a quick and accurate worker with a
  neat hand and a good aesthetic sense for layout. He
  is also suitable for the role of librarian, if such an
  important role may be entrusted to a mundane. It
  might be a little inconvenient that he sometimes
  takes a liking to a particularly beautifully-produced
  volume and makes it difficult for anyone to remove
  it from his sight.
  Jerome the Scribe
  by Sheila Thomas
  
SOURCE: textdata/thevault/Ars Magica [multi]/5th edition/Semita Errabunda/Companions/Jerome - The Scribe.pdf