A new fragment of the 15th century Frisian Excerpta Legum tradition

This article contains an edition, translation and commentary of an Old Frisian text which forms part of a larger complex which was discovered last year in the National Library of Austria. It concerns a small collection of so-called Excerpta Legum material, dating from the 15th century. This tradition arose in the modern province of Fryslân shortly after 1400. It showed a massive reception of Canon and Roman law into Frisian indigenous law. The five paragraphs of the text edited here are compared to the larger tradition that has been handed down. This small collection yields some interesting insights into its development

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