Abergavenney manuscript

The Abergavenney manuscript was a fragment of a journal kept by a Christian hermit in the mountains during the early 8th century. It describes several aspects of religious practices in Great Britain. Around 717 or 719, the hermit had also a vision of the Holy Grail (which according to the legend resided in Avalon).

In the 20 century, the manuscript was discovered in near Abergavenney, Wales during the research of Charles B. Hawen of Oxford University. This was referenced by the spring issue of The Celtic Scholar (1915), in the context of the conference on Celtic-British literature after the Saxon invasions. Henry Jones considered contacting Marcus Brody to arrange a meeting with Hawken.

When Jones arrived in Oxford in 1920, Hawken was dead but he was allowed to study the manuscript.