Raison d’être and Use of Stand-alone formulae in Early Medieval European Legal Manuscripts
Philippe Depreux
This article seeks to explore why early medieval scribes added standalone formulae (anonymized templates for charters and letters) multiple-text manuscripts containing legal texts such as leges (‘law texts’) or capitularies. It discusses several cases, in some of them, we can assume the scribe not only a formula, but modified it an original way, because he thought creating collection his own use. therefore be regarded case ‘writing oneself’.
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