The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 (of 3), by John Ruskin

There are two other inscriptions on the border of the concha; but these, being written on the soffit of the face arch, which, as before noticed, is supported by the last two shafts of the chancel, could not be read by the congregation, and only with difficulty by those immediately underneath them. One of them is in black, the other in red letters. The first: "Mutat quod sumsit, quod sollat crimina tandit Et quod sumpsit, vultus vestisq. refulsit." The second: "Discipuli testes, prophete certa videntes Et cernunt purum, sibi credunt ese futurum." I have found no notice of any of these inscriptions in any Italian account of the church of Murano, and have seldom seen even Monkish Latin less intelligible. There is no mistake in the letters, which are all large and clear; but wrong letters may have been introduced by ignorant restorers, as has often happened in St. Mark's.