From the British Library

In 2017, we were delighted to receive the gift of two 12th-century
charters from Ramsey Abbey, generously donated to the British Library by
Abbey College, Ramsey. These two charters have been conserved and photographed, and they can now be viewed on our Digitised Manuscripts site.

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The
charters were presented on behalf of the Trustees of the Ramsey
Foundation by Robert Heal, Gordon Mather and a group of students from
Ramsey Abbey College, pictured here with Andrea Clarke and Andrew Dunning of the British Library

Ramsey Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential
monasteries in medieval England. It was founded by Oswald, bishop of
Worcester and later archbishop of York, probably in the late 960s. With
help from his benefactor, the nobleman Æthelwine, Oswald turned Ramsey
into a major economic force and intellectual centre. It was even briefly
home to Abbo of Fleury, one of the leading intellectuals in western
Europe, who taught there for two years in the late 980s.

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Detail from the earliest account of the foundation of Ramsey
(Ramsege), in Byrhtferth of Ramsey’s Vita sancti Oswaldi, written c.
996–1002 and preserved uniquely in the Cotton-Corpus Legendary,
Worcester, 3rd quarter of the 11th century: Cotton MS Nero E/1, f. 11v

Read more and see the charters at: http://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/09/two-new-charters-from-ramsey-abbey.html#