MGH Capit. N.S. 4 is now online!
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
Paleographic Puzzles
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“ – […]
End-of-Year Review 2025
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 […]
New manuscript pages
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 […]
From the Engine Room #2: FAIR research data retrospectively? FAIRification as a challenge in ongoing projects
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 […]
Farewell and Welcome
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 […]
From the engine room #1: Networking as added value. Capitularia between DELM, NFDI and the Academies’ programme
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 […]
Early Medieval Law between Manuscript and (digital) Edition: Impressions from the MGH Autumn Academy 2025
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 […]
News on the dating of the ms. Modena, Archivio Capitolare, O.I.2
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 […]
New manuscript pages
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 […]