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 […]
It’s summertime, so we have chosen to publish five manuscript pages that were either produced in France, or are today available there, or both. For those who do not spend their holidays in France, these manuscripts can now be visited at Capitularia at least. They are: Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, BPL 22 Metz, Bibliothèque municipale, † 226 […]
This time, our freshly published manuscript pages are all related to Italy, directly or indirectly. They are: Freiburg i. Br., Universitätsbibliothek, Fragm. 65 Genua, Biblioteca Franzoniana, Miss. Urbani Cod. 50 Montecassino, Archivio dell’Abbazia, 179 Montecassino, Archivio dell’Abbazia, 352 Montecassino, Archivio dell’Abbazia, 442 Turin, Archivio di Stato, Bobbio, Abbazia, (†) m. 1 The one ostensible missfit […]
In the next months, members of the Capitularia team are on the road a lot – here’s a preview of the upcoming events: – Presentation “Towards a meta catalogue for (digital) resources via model-driven design and layering” by Daniela Schulz and Tobias Gradl (Bamberg) in the context of the DELM Meeting (13 May 2025, online) […]
Today we are publishing five manuscript pages that are of particular interest for the study of Charlemagne‘s capitularies. The pages in question are: Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 29 Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, VLF 4 Nuremberg, Stadtbibliothek, Cent. V, App. 96 Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat. 1036 Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Reg. Lat. 1728 […]
Orange is the new Spring Green! We are proud to announce a double bill of publications by our two former colleagues, Dominik Trump and Dominik Leyendecker: In his PhD, “Unfreiheit und Recht. Die servi in den karolingischen Kapitularien (742-840)”, Dominik Leyendecker studies the role of unfree people in capitulary legislation, and reaches some unexpected conclusions […]
Spring is here, and so are four newly published manuscripts of East Frankish origin: Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Pal. Lat. 289 Merseburg, Domstiftsbibliothek, 136 Trier, Bistumsarchiv, Abt. 95 Nr. 39 Trier, Stadtbibliothek, 1098/14 In addition we have added new transcriptions to the page of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Lat. 3878. With the Palatinus 289 […]