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Description: | This manuscript contains several texts relating directly to Abingdon Abbey, for which it must have been made. These include a cartulary, a list of church officials, a customary (recording details of how various actions should be performed, such as the initial of a novice), a list of lands belonging to the abbey, and so on.
These 'puzzle' initials (so-called because the red and blue or green parts interlock like pieces of a jigsaw puzzles) introduce, first, a passage about the rebuilding of Abingdon abbey (referred to as 'this church'; and with 'Abbendonie' written in capital letters, three lines from the bottom of the first column); and second, a copy of a charter of King Eadred, dated 955. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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