Wolfenbüttel, HAB, Cod. Guelf. 97 Weiss.: A law book travelling between Wolfenbüttel, Paris and private desks – and a new history of the Herzog August Library’s collections
The fates of books can rarely be reconstructed without gaps, and yet the biography of a single object often offers insights into many areas, such as the history of scholarship, of institutions and of collections. The Codex Weissenburgensis 97 is one of the oldest textual witnesses of Salic law. For the Capitularia project it is […]