Metrical obits from Abingdon University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.Abingdon.Obit Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Metrical obits from Abingdon
(a) iv Kal. Apr. (29 March) (Æthelstan, abbot of Abingdon 1044-7) Æþelstanus obiit, [noster] uenerabilis abba, Quem Deus in celi culmine constituat.
(b) ii Id. Iun. (12 June) [. . .] requiescit in hoc poliandro [. . .] [n]omine clarisono. [. . .] aderat ceu mistica lampas [. . .]us moribus egregius. [Idibus secundis] Iunii carnalia liquit [. . .]s scandit ad astra poli [Note that the phrase ceu mistica lampas also occurs in the epitaph for Archbishop Ælfric in the Antwerp MS (see C13.doc)]
(c) iv Id. Iul. (12 July) Idibus qui quar[tis] dimisit ponder[a carnis] Presbiter Ælfr[icus] frater et ipse bon[us].