This critical edition of Merovingian and Carolingian charters was edited by the German philologist Karl Zeumer, and published in 1886. Zeumer built on the work of previous editors, most notably the French archivist, Eugene de Roziere, who published an edition in 1854. The charters are grouped by editor, beginning with the Formulae Andecavenses, a collection of sixth- and seventh-century charters first edited in the seventeenth century by the French Benedictine monk, Mabillon. A former student of classical philology at the universities of Gottingen and Leipzig, Zeumer joined the Monumenta Germaniae Historica project in 1875. This series of published primary sources, which continues to this day, used historical scholarship to buttress the growing Romantic nationalism of the nineteenth century. Zeumer received his Ph.D. from Gottingen in 1877, and in 1886 he received an honorary degree from the University of Heidelberg, where he began teaching as a lecturer the following year.

Table of Contents

Praefatio; Ordo editionum; 1. Formulae Andecavenses; 2. Formulae Arvernenses; 3. Marculfi formulae; 4. Formulae Marculfinae aevi Karolini; 5. Formulae Turonenses vulgo Sirmondicae dictae; 6. Formulae Bituricenses; 7. Formulae Senonenses; 8. Formularum Pithoei fragmenta; 9. Formulae Salicae Bignonianae; 10. Formulae Salicae Merkelianae; 11. Formulae Salicae Lindenbrogianae; 12. Formulae Imperiales e curia Ludovici Pii; 13. Formulae Alsaticae; 14. Formulae Augienses; 15. Formulae Sangallenses; 16. Formulae Salzburgenses; 17. Collectio Pataviensis; 18. Formularum codicis S. Emmerami fragmenta; 19. Collectio Flaviniacensis; 20. Formulae Collectionis S. Dionysii; 21. Formulae codicis Laudunensis; 22. Formularum epistolarium collectiones minores; 23. Formulae extravagantes; 24. Formulae Visigothicae; Ordines Iudiciorum Dei; Addenda et corrigenda; Index nominum; Index rerum et verborum; Glossarium linguarum vernacularum.