Belgium, Bibliothèque de la ville de Tournai, Cod., 89

Headnote: Tables astronomiques

Size: 270x205mm

Type: Astronomy

Date: xiv

Folia: 67

Place of production: Abbeye de Fontevrault (near Tours)

Do pre-war images survive?: no

Illuminated?: yes

Type of illustrations: miniatures

Catalogue description: In-4o, vélin; 68 feuillets; initiales coloriées et dorées; caractères rouges et caractères noirs; XIVe siècle.

Notes: Several inscriptions noted by Faider (p. 93); 1) on the recto of the first flyleaf some Latin and French pentrials, including "Nous qui estion dampnez venon chanter lieuint (?) nous avon alegement"; repeated 3x 2) a xivth or xvth c inscription on the inside cover: "magister henricus de Leuwys" 3) on the same sheet "Deze bouc es meester xpiaens de Worme" (from the xvth or xvith c) (with related references to Flanders and a reference to a Joh. de Hulsten). There were also marginal annotations in the manuscript. At the end of the MS are some further astronomical tables, added by two different fourteenth-century hands; see Faider p. 94. 14th c binding. Donated to the Bibl. de la ville de Tournai by B,-G. Dumortier in the nineteenth century.

Source: Amable Wilbaux, Catalogue de la bibliothèque de la ville de Tournai, vol. 1 (Tournai: Typ. de H. Casterman, 1869).

Source 2: Faider, Paul and Pierre Van Sint-Jan. Catalogue des manuscrits conservés à Tournai: Bibliothèques de la ville et du séminaire. Vol. 6. (Gembloux: J. Duculot, 1950).