ABSTRACT
A lengthy Latin vision of purgatory dated 1196. It was written, in about 22, 000 words, in 1197 by order of the bishop of Lincoln. The redactor was Adam, subprior of the monastery, who was the brother of Edmund, the monk of Eynsham. The monk is never mentioned by name, but he is a very sick monk, who believes he is about to die. The vision is set in England at Eynsham near Oxford, according to Thurston, basing his evidence on Coggeshall and some of the mss of the Latin original. Here there was a rich Benedictine abbey dating from the eighth century.
