announcement: Bl down for maintenance
The Bibliotheca legum will undergo a planned maintenance at the end of december. We hope to keep this period as short as possible, but be aware that the website might be down for a considerable amount of time.
Conference: Wergild, Compensation and Penance
On September 29/30 an international conference on “Wergild, Compensation and Penance. The Monetary Logic of Early Medieval Conflict Resolution” will take place in Berlin. A comprehensive introduction to the topic (english) can be found here here. A click on the image below leads you to the programme (in pdf).
Our 2nd anniversary
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.
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.
Happy New Year!
We wish you a prosperous and happy 2014!
The Bibliotheca legum-team
Server change (Nov. 26) may cause downtime
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.
Bl Poster Presentation today
The Bibliotheca legum project will be presented at noon in the Levy Hall. Our poster is already on display there as well.
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).
