Location:Probably Cambrai (according to the name of the author) , the manuscript is from northern France or Flanders - Date:round 1270-1275 (Langfors, Söderhjelm, 1909: vii-viii, xi, cv) - Commission:Dedicated to Philip, king of France (probably Philip the Bold)

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Life of saint Quintinus Viromandensis (+ approx 287). Quintinus, son of the Roman senator Zeno, traveled about 245 to northern Gaul where he did some missionary work in the area around Amiens together with St. Lucian of Beauvais. This happened during the reign of Emperor Maximian. Eventually Quintinus was arrested, subjected to horrific tortures and eventually beheaded. His body was thrown in the nearest river, the Somme, and a few years later, about 340, found by the Roman lady Eugenia. On this spot a church was built, which would form the core of the later city Saint –Quentin.

Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 6447 (Link) (Link)

LANGFORS A., SÖDERHJELM W., La vie de saint Quentin par Huon le Roi de Cambrai (Acta societatis scientiae Fennicae, 38) (Helsingfors, 1909) 3-59

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