Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch. Kapitel ja, aber Kapitular? Im Frühjahr des Jahres 813 wurde laut den Annales regni Francorum auf einer Versammlung in Aachen entschieden, dass im Verlauf dieses Jahres an (fünf) verschiedenen Orten im Frankenreich Bischöfe zusammenkommen sollten, um über die Reform der Kirche (super statu ecclesiarum corrigendo) zu beraten. […]
Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch. Die Kapitularien sind in ihrer Gestalt und in ihrem Inhalt so heterogen, dass es bislang nicht gelungen ist, eine allen Ansprüchen und Einsprüchen genügende Definition zu finden. Die Capitula legi Salicae addita aus der Zeit Ludwigs des Frommen gehören zu jenen Stücken, die sich nur sehr schwer […]
Winter is departing, and new manuscript pages are blossoming at Capitularia. This time, we offer codices of southern German origin, most containing a copy of the Capitulare monasticum (BK 170): Salzburg, Archiv der Erzdiözese Salzburg, 10/107 Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Fürstenberg 655 Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, HB I 163 Trier, Stadtbibliothek, 1238/602 Trier, Stadtbibliothek, 1382/145 Additionally we […]
The first volume of the new edition published in 2024, Fränkische Herrschererlasse 814-840 / Capitularia regum Francorum a. 814 – a. 840, is now accessible online via the dMGH! Subvolume 1 Subvolume 2
Sorry, this entry is only available in Deutsch. Die Kapitularienhandschriften und das “Handschriftenarchiv” Bernhard Bischoffs Die Auswertung des Nachlasses Bernhard Bischoffs zum Nutzen der Mittelalterforschung steht immer noch aus. Herrad Spilling zufolge sah Bischoff mittelalterliche Handschriften „mit Adleraugen aus der Vogelperspektive und bot eher selten eine Analyse von Einzelheiten, um sein Urteil zu begründen“ – […]
As the antiqua consuetudo dictates, our first blogpost of the New Year is dedicated to the review of the past. 2025 brought many new developments to the Capitularia project. Since the end of the year we have a new team member, Tobias Mercer. Newly published is the PhD thesis of the project’s doctoral student Dominik […]
Today, we offer another five new manuscript pages from French archives. These are: Angers, Bibliothèque municipale, 477 (461) Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 4634 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 4636 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 4637 Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 4762 The Angers codex, a computistic miscellaneous manuscript, contains a […]
The blog series ‘From the Engine Room’ is dedicated to the technical aspects and challenges of the ‘Edition der fränkischen Herrschererlasse. Unlike our previous scientific posts on findings and editorial insights, here we focus on the infrastructural, methodological and technological dimensions of a long-term digital project. Since 2014, we have been working on a new […]
Marcello Perathoner has been our technical team member for ten years now. Marcello has not only ensured the reliable operation of the project website and implemented our requests for improved functionalities, but has also enriched our research work with innovations such as the collation tool or the visualisation of collection content. (Marcello’s work for our […]
The blog series ‘From the Engine Room’ is dedicated to the technical aspects and challenges of the ‘Edition der fränkischen Herrschererlasse’. Unlike our other academic articles on findings and editorial insights, here we focus on the infrastructural, methodological and technological dimensions of a long-term digital project. Since 2014, we have been working on a new […]
This year’s MGH Autumn Academy on the topic of ‘Early Medieval Law. Transmission and Edition’ took place in Munich from 15 to 19 September 2025. The event was organised by Dr Dominik Trump (MGH). The five-day programme offered the ten participants from Belgium, Germany, China, the Netherlands and Austria intensive insights into the editorial practice […]
The manuscript Modena, Archivio Capitolare, O.I.2, which transmits the Liber legum of Lupus, is one of the most well-known manuscripts containing capitularies. Its content and the remarkable pictorial program have already been the subject of numerous studies. Nevertheless, some questions remain up to debate, among them the significant issue of its date of origin. Hypotheses […]