Manuscript compilation: Lex Alamannorum; early accounts of pilgrimages to Jerusalem; treatise on the Assumption of Mary; a table of the Frankish peoples, explications of the Profession of Faith; Annales Sancti Galli breves etc.
Description
Manuscript compilation from the first quarter of the 9th century,
possibly written in Bavaria. The codex contains, among other items,
a copy of the Lex Alamannorum (foundation law of the Alamanni), a
historically important collection of early accounts of pilgrimages
to Jerusalem, including the Itinerarium Burdigalense, which
describes a pilgrimage from Bordeaux to Rome in the years 333/34, a
treatise on the Assumption of Mary, a table of the Frankish
peoples, explications of the Profession of Faith, and the so-called
Annales Sancti Galli breves (Brief History of St. Gallen) covering
the years 703 through 869.
Place
Preferred form
Bavaria (Germany) (?)
Original form
Bavaria (?)
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
