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Formulary of Marculf

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Opening of the Formulary in the 9th-century manuscript Cod. Lugdun., Voss Lat. O 86 Leiden, Ms Codex Lugduno-Batavae, Vossiani Latin O 86 fol 42v Formulary of Marculf first page.jpg
Opening of the Formulary in the 9th-century manuscript Cod. Lugdun., Voss Lat. O 86

The Formulary of Marculf is the longest and best preserved formulary (collection of model documents) from the Merovingian kingdoms. Written in Latin, it contains 92 models divided between two books, the first dealing with royal and the second with private charters. [1] It was compiled in the second half of the seventh century by a monk named Marculf, then over seventy years of age, for a bishop named Landeric. Owing to its fine organization, possession of a preface and good manuscript transmission, it has often been treated as a literary work, quite unlike other formularies. [2]

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  1. Faulkner 2018.
  2. Rio 2008 , p. 104: "Marculf ... is the longest collection, the best known, the most studied, and that to which the greatest number of manuscripts is relevant. On the whole it is perceived as a fixed text transmitted coherently. ... [I]t is organised deliberately and rather neatly ... [and] it boasts a preface and a named author ... The temptation is great to give it the same treatment as a literary text ..."

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