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On Lamech: Text and Manuscripts

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Iste lamech , primus introducens bigamiam, cum uirum in uulnus et adolescentem in liuore occidisset, uxoribus ob hoc sibi penam in septuplum deberi predixit .
This Lamech was the first to introduce bigamy. When he killed a man for wounding him and an adolescent for bruising him, he predicted to his wives that he should be punished sevenfold.

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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 29 (C2)

Iste Lamech pri
mus introdu
cens bigamiam.
cum uirum in uul
nus. et adolescen
tem in liuore oc
cidisset. uxoribus
ob hoc sibi penam
in septuplum de
beri predixit.


Version 1

Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Cod. 363 (W)

Manuscript group AT1

Iste laniech primus introducens bigamiam cum
uirum in uulnus. et adolescentem in liuore
occidisset uxoribus ab hoc sibi in septuplum
deberi predixit.

Auxerre, Bibliothèque municipale, Ms. 145 (Ax)

Manuscript group FR2

Iste lamec primus in
troducens bigamiam
cum uirum in uulnus
et adolescentem in liuo
re occidisset. uxo
ribus ob hoc sibi pe
nam in sep
tuplum de
beri pre
dixit.

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.5 (C)

Manuscript group GB6

Iste lamech primus introducens
bigamiam. cum uirum in uulnus. et
adolescentem in liuore occidis
set! uxoribus ob hoc sibi penam in sep
tuplum deberi predixit.


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Citation recommendation

On Lamech: Text and Manuscripts. In: Peter of Poitiers' Compendium historiae: a research platform and edition, ed. by Andrea Worm, et al., Graz: 2026. https://gams.uni-graz.at/query:chigc.thirdlayer?params=$1|t-lamech.

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