New fragment of the Lex Ribuaria
The Bibliotheca legum now offers a short description of the fragment Vatican City Vat. Lat. 15204c, which only contains the rubric of title 91,2 (B-text).
From Peutinger’s library…
Konrad Peutinger had in his library a copy of a no longer existing Lex Baiuvariorum manuscript. In the recently published catalog for the exhibition “Gesammeltes Gedächtnis. Konrad Peutinger und die kulturelle Überlieferung im 16. Jahrhundert” (Collected memory . Konrad Peutinger and the cultural tradition in the 16th century), ed . Reinhard Laube and Helmut Zäh, Veronika Lukas mentions this codex, which today is 2° Cod August 389 in the Augsburg State and City Library. It has now also been added to the Biblioteca as the 50th Lex Baiuvariorum (and overall 321st) manuscript.
New manuscripts
The Bibliotheca legum now offers two new codices: Cologne, Historisches Archiv, W 328 and Perugia, Biblioteca Capitolare, 32.
New editions, studies, and manuscripts
Our website now offers editions of Lex Salica (K-version) 14,16 and 59, new studies especially on the Lex Salica, and a few new manuscripts (e.g. of the so-called Corpus Iuris Civilis).
Correction – London, British Library, Add. 47676
The shelfmark of the London codex British Library, Add. 46676 (as referenced in Kaiser 2004) was corrected to 47676 (according to Liebs 2002). We thank Dr Simon Corcoran, UCL for this advice.
Bischoff’s “Katalog der festländischen Handschriften”
We spent the last few weeks integrating the third volume of Bernhard Bischoff’s “Katalog der festländischen Handschriften”, which has been recently published. Especially information about date and origin of manuscripts in the Biblioteca Vaticana and the National Library in Paris could be completed.
Ad fontes – Lex Salica codices of Bamberg State Library
During a field trip to southern German libraries, the three Lex Salica manuscripts Can. 12, Jur. 35 and (ad) Bibl. 30c of Bamberg State Library were subject to a thorough examination.
We were successfull in reconstructing some etched part of the Salic Law in codex Jur. 35 (foll. 5r and 5v). The order of the etched titles (in comparison to the relevant edition by Eckhardt) is as follows:
5r
2,12
2,13
2,14
2,15
2,16
2,17
5v
2,10
Codex Can. 12 also carries an etched part after the XX. title of Hincmar of Reims. Although it was not possible to identify the erased text, it can be said with some certainty that it is not the title following in the MGH edition).
New codices (re-)discovered
During our research for the Bibliotheca legum we were able to detect a fragment of the Lex Salica in the State Library of Bamberg, which has not been acknowledged so far. Additionally, also a previously unnoticed capitulary was found in the manuscript Berlin, Staatsbibliothek – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Savigny 1. It was even not covered by Mordek in his Bibliotheca (1995).
