Introduction
The manuscript containing the Cantilène de sainte Eulalie (BM Valenciennes, ms. 150) takes the form of a small codex (237 x 150 mm) (fig. 1), protected by a limp leather cover with evident remains of hair: it is a “hairy” book, “liber pilosus” (fig. 2). The volume is dated to the 9th century and is attributed to a Lotharingian scriptorium. The volume would be part of a campaign to reconstruct the library of the Abbey of Saint-Amand following the Norman invasions which ravaged it in 881 and 883.
Fig. 1. BM Valenciennes, ms. 150
© Bibliothèque Simone Veil, Valenciennes.
Fig. 2. The binding of BM Valenciennes, ms. 150
© Bibliothèque Simone Veil, Valenciennes.
The body of the manuscript contains eight books of sermons of Grégoire de Nazianze, translated from Greek into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia. The last leaves of the manuscript, which had been ruled but remained blank, were used afterwards, at the end of the 9th cent...
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