Anyone who asks for this volume, to read, collate, or copy from it, and appropriates to himself or herself, or cuts anything out of it, should realize that (s)he will have to give answer before God's awesome tribunal as if (s)he had robbed a sanctuary. Let such a person be held anathema and receive no forgiveness until the book is returned. So be it, Amen! And anyone who removes these anathemas, digitally or otherwise, shall himself receive them in double.
From the book jacket:
Anyone who asks for this volume, to read, collate, or copy from it, and appropriates to himself or herself, or cuts anything out of it, should realize that (s)he will have to give answer before God's awesome tribunal as if (s)he had robbed a sanctuary. Let such a person be held anathema and receive no forgiveness until the book is returned. So be it, Amen! And anyone who removes these anathemas, digitally or otherwise, shall himself receive them in double.
This is what the wizard solemnly reads out loud just before the thief quietly stuffs the tome in his pack, thereby sealing the party's fate.