Passio Et Miracula Beati Olaui Edited From A Twelfth Century Manuscript In The Library Of Corpus Christi College Oxford

Excerpt from Passio Et Miracula Beati Olaui: Edited From a Twelfth-Century Manuscript in the Library of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; With an Introduction and Notes II. This famous religious institution, still surviving in picturesque ruin, was founded at Christmas, a.d. 1132, in the vale of the Skell, near Ripon, by Archbishop Thurstan of York. The brethren, thirteen in number, were refugees from the Benedictine Monastery of S. Mary, at York, with Richard, the Prior of that foundation, at their head, who was now nominated first Abbot of Fountains. The infant establishment throve apace, and riches soon began to pour in upon it. Within ten years from its foundation, it supplied members for several convents. Pipewcll in Northamptonshire, Woburn in Bedfordshire, and Kirkstead in Lincolnshire, were among the many swarms from the parent hive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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