Fitzwilliam work list: 1879 ...Wisdom and the house of Wisdom in pen and ink for an Apocrypha Inscription reads as follows: SAPIENTIA/EGO MATER PULCHRAE DILECTIONIS ET TIMOURIS ET AGNITIONIS ET SANCTAE SPES/ EGO IN ALTISSIMIS HABITAVI ET THRONUS MEUS IN COLUMNA NUBIS/ AB INITIO ET ANTI SAECULA CREATA SUM ET USQUE AD FUTURUM SAE CULUM NON DESINAM I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope; I dwelt on a throne high among the clouds Imam from the beginning before ages were created Until the future ....... ( unknown at this point) I will not cease The inscription is from the Vulgate Ecclesiasticus XXIV 18