Editing Oaths of Strasbourg (section)

== Manuscript ==
Nithard's text has been passed down to us via two manuscripts that are today kept at the [[Bibliothèque nationale de France|National Library of France]].

The older manuscript was copied around the year 1000, probably for an abbey in Picardy (either that of [[Abbey of Saint-Médard de Soissons|Saint-Médard]] or [[Saint-Riquier#Abbey|Saint Riquier]]). In the fifteenth century it was in the possession of the Abbey of [[Magloire|Saint Magloire]] in Paris. Around 1650 it was bought by the Swedish Queen [[Christina, Queen of Sweden|Christina]] and transferred to Rome; after her death it was acquired by the [[Vatican Library]]. After [[Napoleon]]'s forces captured Rome, it was transferred back to Paris along with various other historical manuscripts. Napoleon would later return most of the others, but kept this one.<ref name=":03" /> It is currently found in the National Library of France under the [[Library classification|call number]] Latin 9768. The Oaths are found on folio #13.<ref>Humphrey Illo, « Quelques observations sur les Serments de Strasbourg et sur le manuscrit qui les contient (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, latin 9768 Xe s., f. 13 recto : <abbr>2e</abbr> col., 13 verso : <abbr>1re</abbr> col.) : commentaire, transcription critique, étude codicologique, fac-similé », in ''Bulletin de la Société des Fouilles Archéologiques et des Monuments Historiques de l'Yonne'', <abbr>no.</abbr> 16, June 1999, <abbr>pp.</abbr> 83-92 ; G. de Poerck, « Le manuscrit B.N. lat. 9768 et les Serments de Strasbourg », in ''Vox Romanica'', t. 15, 1956, <abbr>pp.</abbr> 188-214.</ref>

The other manuscript, which is kept in the same library under the call number Latin 14663, is a copy of the former that was made in the fifteenth century.