Headnote: Historia Trojana abbreviata
Size: 135x95mm
Type: History
Date: xv
Folia: 88
Do pre-war images survive?: yes
Illuminated?: yes
Type of illustrations: "vignettes d'or" (Faider); beautiful foliate borders and decorated initials (cf Faider plate III)
Notes: 15th c binding. Several inscriptions noted by Faider (p. 148): 1) on f. 88v: Filio de nieuport ung getil compaignon 2) on f. 1r "Sire baulde de la mer est mon possesseur depuis l'an 1533 3) on f. 81v: Che liure appartient a sire baulde de la mer pbre et chappelain de Sanct piat en tournay 4) f. 82r Ego sum alpha et o primus et nouissimus. The volume was owned by De Villers (Faider p. 148). Photographed by Faider. It is on microfilm bobine n. 1 (held by the municipal library of Tournai). The manuscript images begin at the 2nd photograph of the microfilm (now image file 1_2 on a CD-ROM at the municipal library of Tournai); the microfilm roll contains the first fly leaf and ff. 1r, 2v-3r, 79v-1st end flyleaf and the 7th flyleaf (KM). F. 3r is printed in Faider's catalogue (plate III).
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).