Belgium, Bibliothèque de la ville de Tournai, Cod., 129

Headnote: Vie de Saint Alexis

Size: 150x110mm

Type: Vita

Date: xv

Folia: 15

Do pre-war images survive?: no

Illuminated?: no

Notes: A copy of the Vie de Saint Alexis that has gone largely unnoticed in scholarship on the text. Text is missing at the beginning and end; about 60 verses are missing between ff. 13 and 14 (see Faider p. 146); a name has been inscribed in the margin of f. 5v: "Jan de la Vingne".

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).

Source 3: Milne, K.A. "A Lost Copy of the Old French Vie (or Chanson) de Saint Alexis (Alexandrine Quatrain Version).” Romance Quarterly. Vol. 70.4 (2023): pp. 1-13. open access