Either as a cause or as an effect of the activity of the book production in Hagenau, the Hagenau schools for scribes during the first half of the fifteenth century became famous.[385] The work of producing manuscripts appears to have been divided, according to the manufacturing system; one scribe prepared the text, a second collated the same with the original, a third painted in the rubricated initials, and a fourth designed the painted head-pieces to the pages, while a fifth prepared the ornamented covers. It occasionally happened, however, that one scribe was himself able to carry on each division of the work of the production of an illuminated manuscript. Hagen quotes some lines of a Hagenau manuscript, as follows: _Dis buch vollenbracht vas, In der zit, also man schreip vnd las, Tusent vnd vyer hundert jar. Nach Christus gebort daz ist war, Dar nach jn dem eyn vnd siebentzigsten jar, Vff sant Pauly bekarung, daz ist ware, Von Hans Dirmsteyn, wist vor war, Der hait es geschreben vnd gemacht, Gemalt, gebunden, vnd gantz follenbracht._[386] Hagenau was one of the few places of book production (excepting the workshops of the Brothers of Common Life) in which, during the manuscript period, books were prepared to meet the requirements of the common folk. The literature proceeding from Hagenau included not only “good Latin books,” that is to say, copies of the accepted classics as used in Heidelberg and elsewhere, but also copies of the famous Epics of the Middle Ages, the Sagas, Folk Songs, Chap-Books, copies of the Golden Bull, Bible stories, books of worship, books of popular music, books of prophecy, and books for the telling of fortunes, etc.[387] Throughout both Germany and the Low Countries, it was the case that, during the manuscript period, the work of the school teachers was closely connected with the work of the producers and sellers of manuscripts, and the teachers not infrequently themselves built up a manuscript business. The school ordinance of the town of Bautzen, dating from the year 1418, prescribed, for example, the prices which the scholars were to pay to the _locatus_ (who was the fifth teacher in rank in the institution) for the school-books, the responsibility for preparing which rested upon him. A history of the Printers’ Society of Dresden, printed in 1740, gives examples of some of these prices: For one _A. B. C._ and a paternoster, each one groschen. For a _Corde Benedicite_, one groschen. For a good _Donat_, ten groschens. For a _Regulam Moralem et Catonem_, eight groschens. For a complete _Doctrinal_, a half mark. For a _Primam Partem_, eight groschens. In case no books are purchased from the _locatus_, there shall be paid to him by each scholar, if the scholar be rich, two groschens, if he be in moderate circumstances, one groschen, and if the scholar be poor, he shall be exempt from payment.[388]