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Fri Dec 4, 2009
Gallia christiana: in provincias ecclesiaticas distributa, tomus quartus. 1728. scanned by google Books books.google.com/books?id=vNg-AAAAcAAJ
Table of contents:
Provincia Lugdunensis Prima, cujus metropolis Lugdunum [Lyon]
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Archiepiscopi Lugdunenses.
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De abbatiis diocesis Lugdunensis.
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Ecclesia Augustodunensis. [Autun]
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Ecclesia Lingonensis. [Langres]
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Ecclesia Cabilonensis. [Chalon-sur-Saône]
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Ecclesia Matisconensis. [Mâcon]
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Instrumenta ad tomum IV. Galliae Chrisianae in provincias ecclesiasticas distributae spectantia. Quae pertinent ad provinciam Lugdunensem.
Ecclesiae Lugdunensis instrumenta
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Instrumenta ad ecclesiam Eduensem spectantia.
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Instrumenta Lingonensis ecclesiae.
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Instrumenta ecclesiae Cabilonensis.
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Instrumenta ecclesiae Matisconensis.
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Glossarium vocum barbararum, corruptarum et exoticarum, quae in hoc quarto tomo continentur.
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Index generalis
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Index archiepiscoporum
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Index episcoporum
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Index praepositorum et decanorum.
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Index abbatum et priorum.
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Index abbatissarum.
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Thu Dec 3, 2009
The possibility to embed documents from Google Books inside an IFRAME or DIV element, was new to me when I came across this service yesterday. This is now implemented as an option when a visitor views information about sources in the sources, maps or Google maps sections of this website. Simply follow the link "Embed Google document here", when viewing detailed source information. The same restrictions on full-view documents apply here, that is, only documents published before approximately 1870 is considered to belong to the public domain outside USA. As usual Google is first in offering useful and exciting services. Just think if Gallica, dMGH or other provider of historical sources would open the possibility to embed content on external websites like this. The embedded viewer can be used statically in an IFRAME-element, or programatically (through a Java-script API) in a DIV-element. Follow this link to view Geo-referenced sources of early medieval Europe as an overlay of Google Maps, and then click on a location, for example, monastery Wissembourg in the Alsace region of France, and click the Embed Google document link on Liber donationum. Maybe too much Google for some people, but anyway, I think it's rather cool, and it says something about the dominance of Google as a provider of embedded services. For more information on how to implement the embedded viewer, follow this link.
Wed Dec 2, 2009
Monumenta Boica, volume 31, pars I: Diplomata Imperatorum Apographa (1836) is now online at Google Books. This 19th century series contains editions of medieval primary sources concerning Bavaria. The German Wikisource has a comprehensive list of URL:s to digital libraries where the individual volumes can be found, freely available for download. This particular volume contains some hard-to-find diplomas of emperor Louis the Pious (814-840).
Tue Dec 1, 2009
Google Books has made available a number of older
cartulary editions published in the 18th century, concerning Carolingian Europe. Of course, these editions are not the most recent, but the latin texts are online, for anyone to study, comfortable at ones desk. I think we can expect that Corpus traditionum Fuldensium, by
Johann Friedrich Schannat (1724) will soon become available too.

Lamey, Andreas (1768), Codex principis olim Laureshamensis abbatiae diplomaticus ... tomus 1, p. 1.
Neugart, Trudpert. Codex diplomaticus Alemanniae et Burgundiae trans-Iuranae intra fines dioecesis Constantiensis. Tomus I. 1791 URL
Pez, Bernhard. Thesaurus anecdotorum novissimus, seu veterum monumentorum praecipue ecclesiasticorum, ex germanicis potissimum bibliothecis adornata collectio recentissima, Volym 1. 1721 URL; including Codex Diplomaticus Ratisponensis, Codex Traditionum Sanct-Emmerammensium (also avialable as Traditionum Emmerammensium, in: Patrologiae cursus completus. Tomo CXXIX. Migne, 1853), and in part, Chronologico diplomaticus episcopatus Ratisbonensis. Tomus I), and Anamodi subdiaconi Ratisponensis, Traditionum sanct-Emmerammensium, Libri II.
Schöttgen, Christian. Diplomatarii et Scriptores Historicæ Germanicæ medii ævi cum sigillis æri incisis opera et studio. 1753. URL
Lamey, Andreas. Codex principis olim Laureshamensis abbatiae diplomaticus ex aevo maxime Carolingico diu multumque desideratus. Mannheim 1768-1770. Tomus primus, Tomus secundus, Tomus tertius. The modern edition of Codex Laureshamiensis, by Karl Glöckner (1929-1936), is available at Austrian litterature online.
Schoepflin, Johann Daniel. Alsatia aevi Merovingici, Carolingici, Saxonici, Salici, Suevici diplomatica. Operis pars I. Merovingica Alsatiae diplomata et chartae. 1772. URL. This edition is also available at Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum (GDZ), who claims some kind of copyright of their digitized copy!
Grandidier, Philippe-André. Histoire de l'Eglise et des évêques princes de Strasbourg. Tome I. Codex diplomaticus ecclesiae et dioecesis Argentinensis seu pieces justificatives pour servir de preuves a l'histoire des évêques et de l'eglise de Strasbourg. Siecle Merovingien. Strasbourg 1778. URL
Grandidier, Philippe-André. Histoire de l'Eglise et des évêques princes de Strasbourg. Tome II. depuis l'an 817 jusqua l'an 965, suivi des pieces justificatives du siecle carlovingien. Codex diplomaticus ecclesiae et dioecesis Argentinensis seu pieces justificatives pour servir de preuves a l'histoire des évêques et de l'eglise de Strasbourg. Siecle Carlovingien. Strasbourg 1778. URL
Fri Nov 20, 2009
I know it's a deadly sin in this context to change already established links to resources on a website, especially if they are said to be permanent. However, due to the experimental nature of this website it was necessary for the logic of some of the canonical links, to do so.
Monasteries can be linked through their name, preceded by the label /monastery, as in http://www.francia.ahlfeldt.se/monastery/Wissembourg. This link produce a map of evidence of property of monastery Wissembourg, located in the region Alsace, France. These URL are then translated by a resolving engine to the current technical implementation of retrieving the resources from the database. The following logic is used. Monasteries located in a city with other church institutions have an URL preceded by the city name and the monastery name, like /monastery/Gent, Saint-Bavo and /monastery/Gent, Blandinium. The reason for this is that every name must be unique. In other cases, where the monastery is the only institution in the city, the name itself is sufficient, like /monastery/Prüm.
Here is a list of some recently changed URL:s with names longer than necessary according to the logic.
/monastery/Wissembourg, Saint-Pierre => /monastery/Wissembourg
/monastery/Prüm, Sankt Salvator => /monastery/Prüm
/monastery/Saint-Omer, Saint-Bertin => /monastery/Saint-Bertin
A list of valid URL:s to all monasteries are listed on this page.
Freely available source-editions and literature concerning early medieval Europe are being collected and geo-referenced. Currently there are more than 3300 links to online sources. These are the latest 10 additions.
Abbé Cassan, E. Meynial (1900)
added Sat Sep 4, 2010
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Elizabeth A. Jordan (1996)
added Thu Sep 2, 2010
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Michael Kulikowski (1997)
added Thu Sep 2, 2010
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A. Werneburg (1884)
added Wed Sep 1, 2010
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Ulrich Nonn
added Tue Aug 31, 2010
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Hans-Walter Klewitz (1937)
added Mon Aug 30, 2010
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Hans Eugen Meyer (1921)
added Mon Aug 30, 2010
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This is a website about visualizing early medieval Europe 614-840 on maps. Here you will find interactive maps of the Frankish kingdom, activities of Merovingian and Carolingian kings, donations of the nobility and development of the property of monasteries and other institutions. The locations on the map are clickable and connected to quotes from, and references to primary sources and literature. Simply click on a location and discover which sources are available on this site and on the internet for a particular city. There is an overview of the interactive maps in the Gallery section, intended as a starting point if you are new to this website.