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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!

Stemma of the Ansegis collection

By kubl | 2021-04-14

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 many early witnesses have been lost. What is missing in Schmitz’s edition, however, is a simplifying stemma that would allow a quick overview of the textual transmission. Such a stemma has now been published for the Capitularia project.

Bibliotheca legum becomes part of MDR

By Daniela Schulz | 2019-04-26

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 also all our users for their support.

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!

Scheduled maintenance, Wed 28

By Daniela Schulz | 2018-02-25

Due to a scheduled maintenance, the Bl website might be down for some time on wednesday (28th) morning (10 am MEZ). We hope that the impairment won’t last for a long time.

Bibliotheca Update and announcement

By Daniela Schulz | 2018-02-08

As obvious for the recurrent user of the Bibliotheca legum, the previously announced “facelift work” has already begun. We just started updating the English site. As soon as the work is finished there and all functionalities have been restored, the German-speaking site will follow.

Besides constantly working on improving the website, the Bibliotheca legum staff will present the project as part of the poster exhibition of the annual conference of the “Netzwerk Historische Grundwissenschaften” (NHG, “Network Historical Auxiliary Sciences”) that takes place at the LMU Munich (Feb 15/16), together with some of the qualification and dissertation projects that have emerged from the project so far. Dominik Trump, M.A. will talk about marginalia and glosses in some Epitome Aegidii manuscripts (“In margine – Benutzerspuren in Handschriften der Epitome Aegidii“). Daniela Schulz will trace back the history of Cod. Guelf. 97 Weiss., applying digital methods (“Der Baustein, den die Bauleute verworfen haben? Auf den Spuren des Cod. Guelf. 97 Weiss.”). The program can be found here.

Some news

By Daniela Schulz | 2018-01-07

After the Bibliotheca legum has commemorated its 5th anniversary rather quietly in 2017, this milestone is now also to be celebrated externally with a “facelift” in the new year. The look of the site will change over the next few weeks or months; it will become more sophisticated and modern. Since these revisions take some time, it can happen that the site is not available at short notice or not all functionalities are available. We endeavour to keep these restrictions as low as possible and also to inform you about the progress.

Recently, an essay has also been written which reflects on the genesis of the database and its further development. This will hopefully be published in the “Zeitschrift für digitale Geisteswissenschaften” (ZfdG) in the near future.

New editions, studies, and manuscripts

By Dominik | 2016-01-21

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).