Exactly two years ago the “Bibliotheca legum”-Website was published. We are glad to celebrate our anniversary and we´d like to thank our supporters.
During the last few weeks we did some intense work on the English version of the website and we hope to be able to present the results very soon.
A planned server change by the IT department of Cologne University in the following week may result in the unavailability of our website. We are best prepared for this change, but in case of any occuring problems, we endeavour to keep downtime as short as possible and take care to make all functions and contents available immediately.
Here are some impressions from the presentation of the Bibliotheca at TEI MM 2013, La Sapienza, Rome.
Here´s our poster and the accompanying slide to the presentation.
The Bibliotheca legum project will be presented at noon in the Levy Hall. Our poster is already on display there as well.
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).
The book of abstracts for the TEI MM in Rome is now avilable in pdf format on the conference website.
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).
The Bibliotheca legum team will be presenting a poster at the TEI Members Meeting 2013 in Rome.
