Edition and translation

Shortly after the manuscript came to Heidelberg from the monastic library in Lorsch, scholars began to work with it there. A first partial edition was presented in 1600 by the jurist Marquard Freher. The project of the first complete edition of the Lorsch Codex was begun by Magnus Klein and continued by Andreas Lamey. A modern edition satisfying scientific demands was produced by Karl Glöckner.

Latin editions

• Freher, Marquard (ed.): Germanicarum rerum scriptores [...], vol. 1, Frankfurt a.M. 1600, pp. 56-97 (with omissions and conversions)
• Klein, Magnus (ed.): Codex diplomaticus et variarum traditionum antiquissimi monasterii Laurisheimensis ord. S. Benedicti in pago Rhenensi, seu Rinechgowe saeculo VIII fundati: cum notis & animadversionibus historicis, chronicis & chorographicis ... luci & usui publico expositus, Tegernsee, 1768
• Lamey, Andreas (ed.): Codex principis olim Laureshamensis abbatiae diplomaticus: ex aevo maxime Carolingico diu multumque desideratus, Mannheim, 1768-1770
• Glöckner, Karl (ed.) / Historische Kommission für den Volksstaat Hessen (ed.): Codex Laureshamensis, Darmstadt, 1929-1936

German translation

• Minst, Karl Josef (transl.): Lorscher Codex: deutsch ; Urkundenbuch der ehemaligen Fürstabtei Lorsch, Lorsch, 1966-1972

Usage Notice

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