Ancient page

This article is about the pages from My notes. For other uses, see Ancient page (disambiguation).

Ancient pages are items which are part of the book My notes. Players can copy them to the book by using the 'Copy to log' option on the page even without the book in the backpack. There are 26 different pages that can be found.

They are sometimes obtained when rummaging barbarian skeletons or as monster drops in the Ancient Cavern, including mithril dragons. However, mithril dragons also drop ancient pages outside of the Ancient Cavern. Duplicate pages may still be obtained before completion of My notes if rummaging skeletons. Killing skeletons or mithril dragons normally will not produce duplicate pages unless all pages have been copied to My notes. A page may drop twice if it hasn't been copied to My notes. Because they are uncommon drops, My notes may take several hours to complete.

Finding all of the notes is a requirement for obtaining the master quest cape (the achievement Otto the Ancient).

Pages

Page	Name	Examine
Page 1	Page torn from book	This seems to have been torn from a book...
Page 2	Page torn from tome	This seems to have been torn from a tome...
Page 3	Page ripped from a diary	This seems to have been ripped from a diary...
Page 4	A shopping list?	Was this once a shopping list?
Page 5	Tatty scrap of vellum	A tatty scrap of vellum.
Page 6	Historical? or junk?	A historic document or just junk?
Page 7	An incomplete record	An incomplete record.
Page 8	Vital? or useless?	Vital or useless?
Page 9	Page of information	Some information.
Page 10	Hastily written page	Written hastily.
Page 11	Fragile parchment	Fragile parchment.
Page 12	Neat page	Neatly noted.
Page 13	Hastily scrawled page	Hastily scrawled.
Page 14	Misspelt page	The writer needed spelling lessons.
Page 15	Dropped page	I wonder who dropped this.
Page 16	Once-sealed note	It may have had an important seal once.
Page 17	Homework	Part of someone's homework?
Page 18	Damp page	Damp and close to disintegration.
Page 19	Old page	It looks pretty old.
Page 20	Waterproof page	Lucky they used waterproof ink.
Page 21	Dragon page	Could a dragon have written this?
Page 22	Tatty page	Tatty.
Page 23	Watermarked page	Has both sorts of watermark.
Page 24	Smelly page	Smells disgusting.
Page 25	Tiny note	Tiny writing.
Page 26	Glowing page	The paper glows with some odd mould.

Drop sources

For an exhaustive list of all known sources for this item, see here.

Source	Level	Quantity	Rarity
Skeleton warlord	91	1	1/32
Skeleton heavy	89	1	1/32
Skeleton hero	74	1	1/32
Skeleton thug	85	1	1/32
Enraged barbarian spirit	106	1	1/32
Skeleton brute	88	1	1/32
Berserk barbarian spirit	106	1	1/32
Skeleton (Ancient Cavern)	N/A	1	Common
Mithril dragon	112	1	1/128
Angry barbarian spirit	106	1	1/32

Achievements

• Otto the Ancient ( 30) – Find all barbarian notes in the Ancient Cavern.

Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included – see here for how to help out!

• ninja 13 September 2021 (Update):
  • The Lorehound pet will now affect the drop rates of Ancient Pages and Magister's Journal Pages.

• ninja 15 February 2016 (Update):
  • The loot beam value has been changed from 50,000 to 50,001 coins for Ancient pages.

• ninja 14 December 2015 (Update):
  • Added a lootbeam value of 50,000 coins to the following:
    • Ancient pages.

Trivia

• Pages can still be obtained after My notes has been completed. Dropped pages will always be the first page, while rummaging skeletons will still produce a random page.