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The earliest reference to a workshop for the production of cloth wall hangings at Saint-Florent occurs in the Historia Sancti Florentii Salmurensis (HSF), the principle narrative source for the early history of the abbey. In 1869, Paul Marchegay edited this text from the Livre Rouge, a cartulary compiled at Saint-Florent between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries, and today in the departmental archives of the Maine-et-Loire in Angers (H 3715, ff. 45–63). Marchegay determined that anonymous authors, doubtless monks from the community, wrote this history in two successive stages beginning at the end of the twelfth century. Their history amounted to a reworking of earlier histories and documents then in the abbey archives but lost today.
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Beech, G. (2005). The Textile Workshop at Saint-Florent in the Eleventh Century. In: Was the Bayeux Tapestry Made in France?. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-07391-4_2
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