The bibliotheca is a small room that adjoins my study. Here I have stored my favorite books, or scrolls of papyrus actually. The rolls (volumenes) have been placed in pigeon-holes, and each is identified with a suspended label (titulus). A scroll that I read often is usually attached to a wooden roller (umbilicus) and stored in a round case (capsa).

Can you guess why the title is written at the end of the scroll rather than at the beginning?