The Instituta Cnuti, in full Instituta Cnuti aliorumque regum Anglorum (Institutes of Cnut and other kings of the English), is a legal compilation that cites, in Latin translation, selected material of Old English law.
The Instituta may be compared to the Consiliatio Cnuti, which offers a near-complete Latin translation of Cnut's legislation.
[citation needed] The text is preserved in Rochester Cathedral Library A.
5 (the Textus Roffensis) and six later manuscripts dating from the 12th and early 13th centuries,[2] including: The standard edition is still that of Felix Liebermann in his monumental Gesetze der Angelsachsen.
More recently, Bruce O'Brien has criticised Liebermann's work and suggested the need for a new critical edition.