Headnote: Bede et al
Size: 280x190mm
Type: History
Date: xii/xiii
Folia: 123
Place of production: England
Do pre-war images survive?: yes
Illuminated?: no
Type of illustrations: "titres et explicits en rouge; lettres majuscules en runge et en vert au début des chapitres" (Faider p. 50)
Notes: From England; origin unknown (probably the same library as MS 135, the 13th century copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth that follows in the catalogue). Later owned by Denis de Villers (d. 1620), canon of Tournai; from him it passed to the Cathedral Chapter and then to the municipal library collection (see Faider pp. 149-153) An image of this MS (f. 78v) appears in the catalogue produced by Faider (it is plate IV) but the MS does not appear on the roll of microfilm created by Faider before the war (KM).
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: “Tournai, Bibliothèque Municipale, 134,” The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220, edited by Orietta Da Rold et al., 2013, (https://www.le.ac.uk/english/em1060to1220/mss/EM.To.BM.134.htm).
Source 4: Robinson, Fred C., and E.G. Stanley. Old English Verse Texts from Many Sources: A Comprehensive Collection (Copenhagen: Rosenkilde and Bagger, 1991).