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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731, p. 44

Manuscript title: Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, Lex Alamannorum

 

Manuscript summary: The so-called Wandalgarius manuscript containing the "Lex Romana Visigothorum", the "Lex Salica" and the "Lex Alamannorum". An important legal manuscript, written and decorated with numerous colored initials and a miniature of a crowned lawgiver in the year 793 by the cleric Wandalgarius in Lyon. It contains the laws of the Visigoths (Lex Romana Visigothorum), the Salian Franks (Lex Salica) and the Alemanni (Lex Alamannorum). It is the oldest precisely dated manuscript in the Abbey Library of St. Gall.

 

Origin: Lyon (France)

 

Period: 8th century

 

Image source: St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 731: Lex Romana Visigothorum, Lex Salica, Lex Alamannorum (www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0731)

 

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