part iv • intellectual legal history • søren koch instructions for Danish law students in 1736 (in Latin, with a Danish translation in 1737).81 Kofod Ancher’s Anviisning for en dansk jurist followed in 1755 (with a second edition in 1777).82 Both relied heavily on continental models, forming a separate genre of legal literature: theprecognita juris.83 As demonstrated by Lars Björne and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde and others, these educational programmes were heavily inspired by Christian Thomasius’ precognita juris, but they were not compilations in the aforementioned sense, because they went beyond texts and text fragments, translated and transferred to a new format.84 Both authors closely follow Thomasius’ structure, and to some extent demand similar knowledge and skills from their readers, but there were also considerable differences: for example, both refer directly to the Royal Ordinance of 10 February 1736, which laid down the requirements for the legal exam, and the lack of systematic reception of Roman law in Denmark–Norway, when explaining why Roman law was not recognized as source of law here.85 Thomasius himself had been critical to the study of Roman law, but for different reasons. From an analytical point of view, it is thus important to distinguish between compilations and texts that could be considered to belong to a particular genre. As a rule, compilations were texts of the same literary genre, but that does not mean all texts of a particular genre were compiled. Especially in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the dividing lines between compilation, reception, translation, and simply writing in line with the unwritten principles of a specific genre were often blurry. 81 Anders Højer, Ideæ ICti [jurisconsulti] Danici (Copenhagen, 1736); id., Forestilling paa en Dansk Jurist (Copenhagen, 1737; tr. Peder Sommer, 2nd edn, 1744). 82 Peder Kofod Ancher, Anviisning for en Dansk Jurist, angaaende Lovkundigheds adskillige deele, Nytte og Hielpemiddler (Copenhagen, 1755; 2nd edn, 1777). 83 For this literary genre, Björne 1995, 148. 84 Christian Thomasius, Summarischer Entwurf der Grundlehren, die einem Studiososiuris zu wissen und auf Universitäten zu lehren nötig sind(Aachen: Olms 1979) (first pub. 1699); Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, ‘Praecognita juris: Eit danningsprogram i dansknorsk rettsvitenskapelig litteratur på 1700-tallet’, Rætferd2/121 (2008), 101–119 at 105; Björne 1995, 151; F. Dahl, ‘Høydepunkter af den Danske retsvitenskabens Historie’, in Erik Reitzel-Nielsen & Carl Popp-Madsen, Festskrift i Anledning af 200årsdagen for indførelsen af juridisk Examen(Copenhagen: Nytt Nordisk Forlag, 1936), 117–255 at 121. 85 Højer 1737, foreword, citing Thomasius’ Cautelæ circa præcognita jurisprudentia of 1710. 218
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