Category: Allgemein

Stemma of the Ansegis collection

Stemma of the Ansegis collection

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.

New publication

New publication

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.

Bibliotheca legum becomes part of MDR

Bibliotheca legum becomes part of MDR

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.

New textual witnesses found by R. Deutinger

New textual witnesses found by R. Deutinger

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.

News

News

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.

 

Some news

Some news

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.