Genève, Bibliothèque de Genève, Comites Latentes 183 : 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 …