Indiculus superstitionum et paganiarum

The so-called Indiculus superstitionum et paganiarum ( " Small directory of superstition and paganism " ) in Latin script language is an ecclesiastical text against the Germanic- Saxon paganism from the late 8th century Carolingian, at the time of the Saxons mission of Charlemagne.

In this manuscript, of which only the cover sheet is obtained, 30 chapter headings are listed in a table of contents. In these headings some important information are included regarding the pagan religious culture of the Saxons, but also in terms of the challenges of everyday work for church missionaries.

The manuscript is preserved in the Vatican Library in Rome in Codex Palatinus Latinus 577, an anthology mixed content, which probably made in Fulda and thence to Mainz, where he was in 1479, and later in the Bibliotheca Palatina in Heidelberg and at last 1623 has come with this to Rome. Directly above the capitularies of Indiculus there is the so-called Saxon Taufgelöbnis, this association was also observed in the transmission in the folio edition, Karlo Manni Principis Capitulare retained in the Monumenta Historica Germaniae.

The capitularies

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