Hermann, de Valenciennes (ca. S. XII)
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Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, CL 183 (Comites Latentes, on deposit from the Historisches Museum Basel)
Parchment · 104 ff. · 24.4 x 14.1 cm · England · last quarter of the 12th century
Herman of Valenciennes, Bible translation in alexandrine verse
This text contains an adaptation of several narrative parts of the Bible in Old French. The poem in alexandrine verse (en laisses d'alexandrins) was composed in the 12th century by an author of the continent and became one of the most successful religious works in Old French. This manuscript preserves one of the oldest and most complete exemplars of this work; it is the only one to contain almost the entire text from the Anglo-Norman branch of the text tradition. Because the text probably is of insular origin, this manuscript proves the almost simultaneous dissemination of the text in England.
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