Dominik – Bibliotheca legum

330th manuscript and 10th birthday

By Dominik | 2022-10-13

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 in time for the 10th birthday of the Bibliotheca legum, we can thus present the 330th manuscript description! Our website is online since autumn 2012 and has become an established tool in legal history research. We would like to thank all our supporters!

New manuscript

By Dominik | 2021-03-17

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.

New publication

By Dominik | 2020-10-27

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 of the Early Middle Ages based on the estimated numbers of lost manuscripts.

Workshop in Vienna

By Dominik | 2020-02-27

IMC Leeds 2019

By Dominik | 2019-07-01

5 (6) years Bibliotheca legum – New publication on the occasion of the anniversary

By Dominik | 2018-10-24

In 2017, the Bibliotheca legum celebrated its fifth anniversary! Since anniversaries are always a reason to reflect on the past, the Bibliotheca team did the same and recalled the genesis and development of the project. We also gave some thought to the future prospects of the Bibliotheca. The result is an article in the German “Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften”, which you can find here: http://www.zfdg.de/2018_006.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved and supporting the Bibliotheca legum!

News

By Dominik | 2018-10-02

The Bibliotheca legum has added the Lex Visigothorum fragment Strasbourg, Archives départementales du Bas-Rhin, 151 J 50 as the 326th manuscript. Furthermore, digital facsimiles have been added to the manuscripts which are now in Munich, Paris and the Vatican. In addition, the bibliography has been updated: here you will find all editions and literature mentioned on the pages of the Bibliotheca legum in one place. More than 400 entries have been collected. The literature on the individual leges and manuscripts is updated continuously and digital facsimiles are added.

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.