1. Suger made a similar point when he described the main altar: ‘… opus quod solis patet litteratis quod allegoriarum jocundarum jubare resplendet, apicibus litterarum mandari fecimus,’ De admin, 197.
2. See Brooke C. N. L. , 'Approaches to Medieval Forgery,' in Medieval Church and Society (New York 1972) 100-20
3. and Levison W. , England and the Continent in the Eighth Century (Oxford 1946) 207-10, who analyzes the forged charters of Saint-Ouen, Rouen, and St. Augustine's, Canterbury.
4. The additions to the Revelatio Stephani Papae II, which come from Fleury, Sens, and Saint-Germain-des-Prés manuscripts and are printed in PL 89.1023–24, describe the royal anointing thus: ‘unxit in reges Francorum,’ ‘unctione sacratissima consecrare.’
5. Ibid. 28–32.