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Æthelstan’s Exeter code (V As)

This code survives in the Textus Roffensis and in a transcript from the sixteenth-century of a now severely damaged manuscript. Although often cited as V Æthelstan, it preceded the laws known as III and IV Æthelstan. The code promises to take strong action against those defying law.

It was translated into Latin c. 1100: see Quadripartitus

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