Today we are publishing five manuscript pages that are of particular interest for the study of Charlemagne‘s capitularies. The pages in question are:
Three of these manuscripts (from Nuremberg and the Vatican) made use of one or more capitulary collections from the time of Charlemagne apparently. This use in turn provides a link to three further manuscripts which we have published previously, namely:
The transcription of the latter three manuscripts has now been finalised by adding all their capitularies by Charlemagne. One of the collections in the six interlinked manuscripts was already covered in a blogpost in 2020. The steady flow of new transcriptions of pre-814 capitularies allows for a constant revision and refinement of older hypotheses and the development of new ones. Thus, the freshly published new material offers, amongst others, five further copies of BK 44 and six copies each of BK 39, 40 and 67. Additionally, it makes available the entire transmission of BK 54 (in Paris) and of BK 104 c. 3 (in Cologny, Nuremberg and Saint Petersburg).