Lex Romana Curiensis

[1] The date and place of composition of the Lex Romana Curiensis are disputed, although most scholars today favour an eighth-century origin in Churraetia.

[1] According to Paul Vinogradoff, it "is a statement of legal custom, drawn up for the Romance population of Eastern Switzerland, and used in the Tyrol and Northern Italy as well.

[2][4] The Croatian historian Lujo Margetić claims it was produced under Charlemagne around 803 as a "legal handbook" for the lands of the former Avar Khaganate.

[d] The other is originally from Verona,[e] although it was kept for a long time first at Aquileia and later at Udine, whence it was taken by Gustav Friedrich Hänel to Germany in the nineteenth century.

[4] The editio princeps (first edition) of the Lex Romana Curiensis was published by Paolo Canciani in 1789 from the Verona manuscript.

Page where the Lex Romana Curiensis begins in the Verona manuscript. The beginning of the text is in the middle of the right column: In nomine s[an]c[t]ae Trinitatis incipiunt capitula libri primi legis (In the name of the Holy Trinity, the chapters of the first book of the law begin...).