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