Branding

The letters of ‘P’ and ‘E’ of PASE have been drawn based on the design of illuminated letters in Cambridge, Trinity College, Cambridge B.11.9 (Amalarius, De ecclesiastici officiis). The right-hand side of the banner draws on a detail from the Bayeux Tapestry (late eleventh century), reproduced by special permission of the City of Bayeux. The image in question shows a group of people witnessing the coronation of King Harold II at Westminster Abbey on 6 January 1066: this group may be taken to symbolize the body of pre-Conquest landholders whose estates are recorded in Domesday Book, and whose identification PASE Domesday is designed to facilitate.