Digital Resources of the MGH Sections

The digital open-access resources of the MGH sections (Abteilungen): Scriptores, Leges, Diplomata, Epistolae, and Antiquitates provide a wide array of research materials:

• Databases for the MGH volumes
• Online pre-print editions (PDFs)
• Databases of unfinished edition projects
• Additional resources such as concordance tables

At present, the focus lies on pre-print editions providing an online version of of an edition in the pre-publication stage with the corrected text elements and a preliminary introduction. This work-in-progress approach shortens the waiting for the printed full edition and, by encouraging scholarly discurse, helps to improve the quality of the editions. The URLs of the pre-print editions are permanent.  

Resources of the section Scriptores

Chronicle of Hugo of Flavigny (MGH Scriptores in folio 8, S. 288-503)

Text with highlighted correction suggestions (see Lawo, Studien zu Hugo von Flavigny, Schriften der MGH 61, 2010) (PDF)

Bamberg world chronicles of the 11^th/ 12^th centuries (Chronicle of Frutolf von Michelsberg with continuation, so-called Anonymous Kaiserchronik, Chronicles of Ekkehards von Aura)

• Pre-print edition of the anonymous Frutolf continuation up to 1101 and 1106 (PDF, last update: August 2018) 
• Pre-print edition of the Kaiserchronik (PDF, last update: August 2019)

The papal-imperial chronicles of the Late Middle Ages

• Database with material for a new edition of Martin of Oppava's (Martin von Troppau) Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum (MGH Scriptores in Folio 22, S. 377 – 475)
• Conspectus of late mediaeval papal-imperial chronicles (PDF)
• Conspectus of the continuations of the papal-imperial chronicle of Martin of Oppava (Martin von Troppau) and the Flores temporum (PDF)

Resources of the section Leges

Clavis Canonum - Selected Canon Law Collections before 1140 (MGH Hilfsmittel 21)

Database with search functions (and accompanying wiki)

The collection „Policarpus“ by Cardinal Gregory of S. Grisogono

• Short introduction by Horst Fuhrmann (with resolution of the manuscript sigla) (PDF)
• Preliminary edition text by Uwe Horst following preparatory studies by Carl Erdmann (PDF)
• Concordance of the most important legal collections up to Gratian (PDF, extract from MGH Hilfsmittel 5, 1980, pp. 104–198)

Decretals of Pseudo-Isidore

• Pseudo-Isidore - An Edition-in-Progress of the False Decretals (Webite of MGH editor Eric Knibbs)
• Manuscripts from Corbie (up to 850). A survey by Klaus Zechiel-Eckes (†)
• Projekt Pseudoisidor: Database with text criticism by Karl-Georg Schon (2010)

The forged capitularies of Benedictus Levita

Database with preliminary partial edition, literature, concordance, older editions, manuscript images

Resources of the section Diplomata

Addenda to the MGH Diplomata

Database with addenda to the older volumes, references to Regesta Imperii, images, newer literature, etc.

The charters of Louis the Pious (Ludwig der Fromme) (MGH Diplomata Karolinorum 2)

Protocols of the scribe analyses (PDF)

The charters of Henry V and Queen Mathilda (MGH Diplomata regum et imperatorum Germaniae 7)

Pre-print edition (database)

The charters of Henry VI and the Empress Constance (MGH Diplomata regum et imperatorum Germaniae 11)

• Pre-print edition of the charters of Henry VI for German, French, and Italian recipients (PDF, last update February 2020)
• Pre-print edition of the charters of Henry VI for recipients from the Italian regions Piemont and Latium (PDF, last updated February 2024)
• Pre-print edition of the charters of Henry VI for recipients from Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxemburg; letter of Henry VI. to popes and cardinals of the Roman church (PDF, last updated December 2022)
• Pre-print edition of the charters of Henry VI for recipients in the  Regnum Siciliae (PDF, last update: December 2013)

The charters of Otto IV (MGH Diplomata regum et imperatorum Germaniae 13)

Pre-print edition (PDF, last update: August 2019)

Resources of the section Epistolae

The letters of Archbishop Hincmar of Reims (MGH Epistolae 8)

• Explanatory notes on the numbering of the letters and the concordances
• Concordances
• Table of sources and literature

Epistolae variorum 877-923 (MGH Epistolae 9)

Database of the content, incipits, transmission, printed editions and literature, and edited letters; the letter collections can be accessed in context.

The letter collection of Thomas of Capua

Pre-print edition without text-critical apparatus, contains summaries, references to printed editions, texts of the letters (PDF)

Pope Clement IV, Epistolae and Dictamina (MGH Briefe des späteren Mittelalters)

Pre-print edition without critical apparatuses (PDF)

The Epistolarium of Pseudo-Marinus of Eboli

Database with digital copy of the manuscript Arles 60, search functions, tables of names and literature

The Lombard letter collection

Database with preliminary edition, introduction, indexes

Resources of the section Antiquitates/ Poetae

Database with material on anomalous Latin prosody