French manuscript portraying the ideal convent. In the top row Mass is being celebrated; behind the priest and his assistants stands the abbess with her crozier and the sacristan, pulling the bell-ropes. Dated 10th Century

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French manuscript portraying the ideal convent. In the top row Mass is being celebrated; behind the priest and his assistants stands the abbess with her crozier and the sacristan, pulling the bell-ropes. Dated 10th Century

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