The first part is wanting, and the text beg. 'Non fesist il dusca calais | Ne de caíais dusca biaucaire': ends 'Diex les consaut quant il mourront': at end, 'Chi furent tout li glorieus miracle . que mesires sains Eloys li beneois euesques de Noion fist en sa tres sainte vie ... et si mescrist . Gerars de Monsteruel . en lan de l' incarnation ... Mil. ijc iiijxx . &, xiiij le diemenche apres le saint Nicholais le benoit ...'.

A leaf is lost after fol. 9, and fol. 147 is damaged.

This Life appears to be based on the prose one by st. Ouen (fol. 4: 'Sains Oains ki fist chest istoire'). This MS. has been edited by m. Peigné Delacourt in 1859.

On fol. 118v (16th cent.) 'Ce present liure appartient a labbaye de Sainct Eloy de Noyon ...': on fol. 171v 'Ce present liure a esté perduz en lan mil vc iiijxx et vnze, lorsque labbaye ... fut prise et pillee ...', with an erasure on which is written part of the following note:'A lan mil six cent et cinq au mois de Frebuier il a esté recognuz a Paris, et rachete par daomp Robert le Roy moiennant vng escus de lxiiij solx vj d [?] a vng nomme Pierre Fleury marchant demeurant deuant les hasles a Paris a lenseigne des Trois Jambes'.