Coutumes de Beauvaisis

The Coutumes de Beauvaisis is a book on medieval French law composed in Old French prose at the end of the thirteenth century. Its author was Philippe de Remi, a jurist also known as Beaumanoir, who was long confused with his poet father of the same name. The work addresses a wide range of procedural and substantive law drawn from the customary law of the Beauvaisis region, and its length and detail have made it one of the most studied works of medieval French legal writing. The standard scholarly edition, prepared by Amedee Salmon, was published in 1899 to 1900 and preserves the original Old French text; English and Japanese translations exist, though no modern French translation has been made.