The latest addition to the Bibliotheca legum is a codex written in Greek, which is now in the National Library in Paris: Grec. 1384. This manuscript contains various Byzantine law collections as well as a fragment of a Greek translation of the Edictus Rothari. We thank Prof. Stefan Esders (FU Berlin) for his hint! Just …
The edition of Ansegis’ capitulary collection is a real treasure trove for anyone interested in the transmission of legal manuscripts in the Carolingian period. With utmost meticulousness Gerhard Schmitz has analyzed the manuscripts of the collection and their textual peculiarities. He convincingly demonstrated that the collection was rapidly disseminated throughout the Frankish Empire and that …
Thanks to Dr. Roman Deutinger (Munich), the Bibliotheca legum is now able to present its 327th manuscript: Paris, BN, Lat. 5512. This manuscript from the 12th century offers several historiographical texts and the prologue of the Lex Salica on fol. 59rb.
The recently published proceedings of the 41st Cologne Mediaevistentagung “Die Bibliothek – The Library – La Bibliothèque” contain an article by Dominik Trump and Karl Ubl entitled “Bibliotheca legum: Das Wissen über weltliches Recht im Frankenreich des 9. Jahrhunderts“. It deals with the digital indexing of legal manuscripts and also reflects on the legal knowledge …
We are delighted to inform you, that the Bibliotheca legum website has been officially approved for inclusion in the Medieval Academy of America’s Database of Medieval Digital Resources (MDR), because it meets or exceeds their standards for digital best-practices. We would like to thank the curators of the MDR for including our manuscript database and …
In the new issue of the Deutsches Archiv (74/1, 2018, pp. 177-191) Roman Deutinger has drawn attention to a hitherto unknown textual witnesses of Leges texts. Deutinger discovered transcriptions of the Lex Baiuvariorum, the Lex Salica and the Lex Francorum Chamavorum in the collections of the scholar Wolfgang Hunger (1511-1555). Especially the transmission of the …
