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Next to the name of the weaver’s apprentice were three ominous words: “Hic incipit pestis.”

Like him, I began with only one sentence, the incipit of all further conversation.

As some specific titles, especially in poetry, would have been used in works by multiple authors, it is also likely that some labels included an “incipit”—the first line of the work.

When Beardsley created “Incipit Vita Nova,” he was not yet twenty years old.

The impressive piece, ready to be installed at Newcastle upon Tyne's Castle Keep, is a modern tribute to the incipit of St John's Gospel in principio erat Verbum - "in the beginning was the �������t¶��."