lex salica – Bibliotheca legum

New textual witnesses found by R. Deutinger

By Daniela Schulz | 2019-03-11

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 Lex Francorum Chamavorum is a great asset, since only three manuscripts of this Lex were known so far.

Ad fontes – Lex Salica codices of Bamberg State Library

By Daniela Schulz | 2013-09-28

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

By Dominik | 2013-06-13

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).