British costume during XIX centuries (civil and ecclesiastical) (1910)
Ashdown, Charles H., Mrs · London and Edinburgh : T. C. & e. c. Jack · leaf 496
The Mitre.—During the Saxon Period the covering forthe head consisted merely of a cap, as we have seen, butwhich, in this period, assumed much larger dimensions, andfor the first time prominence is given to the infulae. Inlater times these were frequently made of metal, andfixed by hinges. There… … Fig. 428.—Abbot Elfnoth. (Harl. MS. 2908.)
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