We now come to the most startling consideration of all, namely, that _there are two varieties of insular script in the book_. The first variety, which I will now call _i^{1}_, is exhibited in all the plates thus far presented. It is loose, pointed, flowing, with few abbreviations or ligatures specially characteristic of Irish script. With only one or two exceptions, it uses a _d_ with a curved shaft. The other variety (_i^{2}_), as Plate X (fol. 106) shows, is at once more compact and regular, and more cursive, with more of the specifically Irish traits; it has a straight-shafted _d_. Furthermore, the two hands appear in different portions of the manuscript. _i^{1}_ is confined to foll. 1-80^{v} (= quires I-X) and foll. 113-318^{v} (= quires XV-XLI), while _i^{2}_ appears only in foll. 81-112^{v} (= quires XI-XIV) and foll. 319-358 (= quires XLII-XLVI). In the sections corrected by _i^{2}_, we note the same features as in the other parts. _i^{2}_ inserts many long enlargements and makes many minor corrections. He is supplemented in one of his own enlargements by _r^{2}_.[11] On another page, he is corrected by _r^{2}_, or possibly the text-hand.[12] Our last resort, if we are still to look for the autograph of John the Scot in the various hands of Reims, is to suppose that, if not _i^{1}_, it is _i^{2}_. This is indeed the hand that Traube believed was the author's; it happened that almost all of the photographs taken for Traube contain enlargements by _i^{2}_ and not by _i^{1}_. Yet if _i^{2}_ is Johannes, why does that hand never correct the sections assigned to _i^{1}_? Of the two, _i^{1}_ seems more free, more individual, more like an author's, unless that author be also a calligraphist. But if we imagine that _i^{1}_ is Johannes, why does he never appear in the sections assigned to _i^{2}_? Our chain of evidence draws us to the conclusion that neither _i^{1}_ nor _i^{2}_ is Johannes, but that both are scribes employed by him, together with others, to correct and enlarge the manuscripts of his works. The two Insular writers were very possibly the most important of his workmen, for he entrusted most of the revision to them. Their task was done in intimate cooperation with the other scribes. They would call them in to finish their notes if considerations of space demanded, or, now and then, merely to indulge in a pastime of alternate writing. Perhaps it was the difficulty of deciphering the original that induced a scribe to appeal more frequently than usual for help from a fellow-craftsman. I have confined my discussion to the manuscript 875 of Reims, but the two Insular hands appear also in the manuscripts of Bamberg and of Laon.[13]