The ''Formulary of Marculf'' is the longest and best preserved formulary (collection of model documents) from the Merovingian kingdoms. Written in

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, it contains 92 models divided between two books, the first dealing with royal and the second with private charters. It was compiled in the second half of the seventh century by a monk named Marculf, then over seventy years of age, for a bishop named Landeric. Owing to its fine organization, possession of a preface and good manuscript transmission, it has often been treated as a literary work, quite unlike other formularies.: "Marculf ... is the longest collection, the best known, the most studied, and that to which the greatest number of manuscripts is relevant. On the whole it is perceived as a fixed text transmitted coherently. ... is organised deliberately and rather neatly ... ndit boasts a preface and a named author ... The temptation is great to give it the same treatment as a literary text ..."

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* * {{refend 7th-century Latin books