Some progress was made on evaluating the authenticity of documents, which were often as deserving of skepticism as relics. Men of law possessed the relevant skills, being trained both in the evaluation of evidence and in close attention to documents.88 Since Roman law gave a high evidentiary value to documents, it had encountered the problems of their forgery and loss. Both the Digest and the Code have sections “on faith in documents” that raise the problem of determining authenticity but say little about how to resolve it beyond a vague mention of “comparison of handwriting,” and some doubts
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