The study contains a survey of all known depictions of books of secular law within medieval illuminated manuscripts. On more than two hundred manuscripts of Roman and post-Roman law copied in Europe between the end of the 5th century and the end of the 11th, only a few contain the image of a book: Leiden, BU, BPL 114 (
Epitome Aegidii - a summary of Alaric's
Breviarium); Paris, BNF, lat. 4404 (Alaric's
Breviarium;
Lex Salica;
Lex Alamannorum;
Lex Ripuaria; some capitularies of Charlemagne); Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibl. 731 (Alaric's
Breviarium;
Lex Salica;
Lex Alamannorum); Sankt Paul im Lavanttal, Bibl. des Benediktnerstifts, 4; Modena, Bibl. Capitolare, O.I.2 (a copy of Lupus of Ferrières's
Liber legum); Cava de' Tirreni, Bibl. della Badia, 4 (containing, amongst other texts, some
Leges Langobardorum and some Capitularies); Madrid, BNE, 413 (
Leges Langobardorum); Erfurt/Gotha, UB, Mbr. I.84 (Ansegisus' collection of capitularies). Some manuscripts are briefly mentioned for comparison, namely: Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibl., 730 (containing the
Lex Langobardorum); Dublin, Trinity Coll., A. 4.5 (57) («Book of Durrow»); London, Lambeth Palace Libr., 1370 («Mac Durnan Gospels»); Vercelli, Bibl. Capitolare, CLXV (collection of Canon Law); München, BSB, Clm 100. (Matteo Salaroli)
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