2017 – Bibliotheca legum

Lex Alamannorum and Isaac of Langres

By Dominik | 2017-11-22

As the 325th manuscript of the Bibliotheca legum, it was possible to include Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Lat. 3877. The main content of the manuscript are the capitula of Isaac of Langres, followed by various canonical excerpts. At the end of the codex, various other legal texts follow, including title 19 of the Lex Alamannorum, which was previously unknown. Semih Heinen has studied the Parisian manuscript for the project “Edition of the Frankish Capitularies” and discovered the title. You can find his blog post here.

New manuscripts

By Dominik | 2017-10-25

As manuscripts no. 323 and 324 a Karlsruhe manuscript with a title of the Lex Alamannorum and a fragment of the Lex Ribuaria (now part of a Graz manuscript) could be newly included.

Knowledge sites and topicality

By Daniela Schulz | 2017-09-21

Keeping up to date with the recent publication of relevant literature and especially of new digital images made available by the various libraries is not an easy task – especially when working not exclusively on one project. We are therefore most grateful for scholars informing us about such things and/or providing corrections or more precise information on manuscripts etc. In addition to direct interactions, social media plattforms such as Twitter have proven to be useful resources within the last few years. A lot of scientific blog posts feature there, that often also provoke fruitful discussions.

Among many other resources, one blog we frequently rely on is Jean-Baptiste Piggin’s “Macro-Typography”-blog. Here, he provides lists of the latest DigiVatLib digitizations as well as interesting observations on the manuscripts. Thom Gobbitt’s “early medieval laws and law-books“-Blog offers interesting insights about legal manuscripts with a special focus on the leges Langobardorum. And of course, there is always an active exchange between the Bibliotheca legum the capitularies project (Capitularia. Edition of the Frankish capitularies), which is also led by Karl Ubl.

Index to Heinrich Brunner’s “Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte”

By Dominik | 2017-03-13

We now offer an index to Heinrich Brunner’s “Deutsche Rechtsgeschichte”, which was prepared under the auspices of Anja Holtschneider, staff member of the project “Capitularia. Edition of the Frankish Capitularies“. This provides a direct access to all passages that mention leges and capitularies.