Headnote: Historia Hierosolymitana et al.
Size: 262x173mm
Type: History
Date: xii
Folia: 212
Place of production: Tournai; the scriptorium of the abbey of St Martin de Tournai
Do pre-war images survive?: yes
Illuminated?: ?
Notes: Contains a rubric: "Liber ecclesie Sancti Martini Tornacensis" in the same hand as the scribe; on f. 1 (see Faider, p. 185). Faider notes that there are also other marks of provenance from the same abbey, including one from the fourteenth or fifteenth century and two from the fifteenth century (Faider p. 185). This suggests that the MS was copied at the abbey of S Martin and stayed there until at least the fifteenth century. Faider transcribes some names in the MS which may be users: "Henricus Tornacensis canonicus" author of "Liber de antiquitate urbis Tornacensis" (ff. 148r-155r); also contains a note by D. de Villers: "D. de V. uidit et cum altero contulit exemplari anno 1586" (f. 212v). Other names include that of "Theodericus Moriel" (f. 213v); see Faider p. 185. Pen trials on ff. 1r, 213v-214r and at the start (Faider p. 185). Before the war, images of this MS were put on microfilm; they are now on bobine 1 of the microfilm held by the municipal library of Tournai. The microfilm has also been transferred to CD-ROM. The following ff. are on the microfilm: the interior flyleaf and f. 1r, ff. 1v-2r, 93v-99r, 101v-110r, 117v-118r, 212v-214r. Ff. 99v and 212v have been printed in Faider's catalogue (plates V and I, respectively).
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).