Headnote: Codex Sancti Bavonis
Type: history
MS Date: xii (2)
Folia: 226
Do pre-war images survive?: no
Illuminated?: yes
Type of illustrations: ornamented initials
Place of production: St Bavo
Produced for: St Bavo
Catalogue description: "Dit handschrift is volgens bijgevoegde aanteekening van Mr S de Wind waarschijnlijk uit de 13e eeuw en bevat eenige fragmenten uit Eginhard's Vita Caroli Magni de fabelachtige kronijk van Turpin en Beda de gestis Anglorum het heeft volgens het schutblad volgende op bladz 226 voormaals toebehoord aan de kerk van St Baaf te Gent"
Notes: According to a description by De Wind (from the nineteenth century), the MS contained 2 columns per folio, 904 columns in total, ruled with 27 lines a folio. It was well preserved at the time that De Wind described it, with no letter unreadable (“geen enkele letter onleesbaar is”) (p. 38). Some of the initials were ornamented (p 38). De Wind writes that the language and hand of the MS suggests that it was produced in the second half of the twelfth century. The MS contained an anathema inscription at the end recording that it was from St. Bavo (it is transcribed by De Wind, p. 39). The MS had been among those from the vestry (‘consistorie’) of the choorkerk of the Ministrie der Hervormde Gemeente (De Wind p. 38). In 1856, this MS was in the Town Hall of Middleburg, along with other manuscripts from St Bavo; see De Wind, p. 38. De Wind published some notes on this MS in 1856. De Wind’s original notes on this manuscript also survive; they are now Middelburg ZB Magazijn 3192 F 172.
Source: U.F. Auer, Catalogus van de Provinciale Bibliotheek van Zeeland. Nieuwe uitgaaf. Middelburg: U.F. Auer, 1863.
MS Source 2: Samuel de Wind, "Over den Codex Sancti Bavonis, inhoudende: Vita Karoli Magni enz., berustende op het Raadhuis te Middelburg" Archief: Zeeland (1856): pp. 38-46.