The Church Fathers · c. 720–730
The Scarapsus
Pirmin · d. 753
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
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
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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