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The Church Fathers · c. 720–730
The Scarapsus
Pirmin · d. 753
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What it is
A short handbook of the faith for missionaries working among recently converted Germanic peoples, running from creation to judgement and listing forbidden pagan customs.
Why it lasted
A working missionary's script, and the earliest text to quote the Apostles' Creed in exactly its received form.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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