Abbaye Saint-Mesmin de Micy / Abbaye St-Mesmin de Micy / Abbaye St-Memin / Abbaye St-Mémin in Saint-Pryvé-Saint-Mesmin

Allen (1839?) writes: "The inscription is ΝΙΨΟΝ ΑΝΟΜΗΜΑ ΜΗ ΜΟΝΑΝ ΟΨΙΝ (Lord) wash my sin and not my face only,) it will be readily perceived that this Greek inscription reads either backward or forward. This monostich appear to have been adopted from the Greek church. It is, or was to be seen, on the font of the basiilica of St. Sophia at Constantinople. In this country its occurrence is frequent, in particular on the covers of the fonts at Dulwich College, and Worlingworth church Suffolk, a festive basin at Trinity College Cambridge, on the font at Harlow in Essex, and at Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire, and in France on a marble benitier in the church of Notre Dame, and the fonts at St. Stephen d'Egres at Paris, and in that of St. Menin's Abbey near Orleans." The Note and Queries issue of Oct. 8, 1853 [352 / http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Brri34stXrwC&pg=PA352&lpg=PA352&dq=st+etienne+d'egres&source=web&ots=sv4It6ADUc&sig=fVNAa7PUUnNjLc3IqDY6ZcBQ19E&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA352,M1 [accessed 28 July 2008] reproduces a quoted text from 'Voyages liturgiques de France, par Sieur Molcon, p. 219, 1718' in which a reference is made to the appearance of this palindrome around the upper rim of a holy-water stoup in the church of the Abbey of St. Mémin, on the banks of the Loire river, near Orléans"