Headnote: Roman du Chevalier au Cygne
Size: 280x210mm
Type: Poetry
Date: xv
Folia: 419
Do pre-war images survive?: no
Illuminated?: yes
Type of illustrations: "cinq boulons fleuronnés sur chaque plat"
Catalogue description: In-folio, papier; 147 feuillets à 25 vers alexandrins par page; XVe siècle; reliure ancienne, bois, à clous et à fermoirs de cuivre.
Notes: Some pages have been torn; Faider's foliation differs signficantly from that of Wilbaux because the MS has been very damaged and reassembled with missing leaves. Ff. 400-419 very damaged. Previously owned by J. de Winghe; his purchase recorded at the end of the MS (see Faider p. 111). The MS wasa in the possession of Verbarre in 1804; see Faider p. 111. 15th c binding.
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).