Abbreviatum: The so-called Decretum by Bishop Burchard of Worms (1000-1025) is considered one of the most significant and influential works of ecclesiastical law before the Decretum Gratiani. The work, consisting of 20 books with over 1785 chapters, contains detailed rules and instructions for clerics and laypeople, and collected, sorted, and standardized the transmitted ecclesiastical law in a pioneering manner. More than 80 manuscripts and fragments bear witness to the wide distribution and reception of the work in Western and Central Europe. Thus, the Decretum presents two challenges to modern editorial practices: It is a work of considerable size and also has a very extensive manuscript tradition. The desideratum of a critical edition is to be met by the project "Burchard's Decree Digital - Working Platform for Textual Exploration and the Impact History of Early and High Medieval Legal Cultures" of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz: The primary goal of the project is a critical edition, which is to be printed initially within the framework of the MGH (Monumenta Germaniae Historica) and published as a digital edition in ongoing work. The focus is on manuscripts that were created during Burchard's lifetime and presumably under his supervision in Worms. Comprehensive studies on the reception of the work and its influence on medieval, but also modern, ecclesiastical law, as well as a catalog of manuscripts, digitally set up as a database, complement the editorial work. For this purpose, among other things, the transcriptions of individual books of the Decretum, marked up using TEI/XML, are made digitally available. INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBͥ SEXTI INCIPIT LIBER SEXTVS
Expansum: The so-called Decretum by Bishop Burchard of Worms (1000-1025) is considered one of the most significant and influential works of ecclesiastical law before the Decretum Gratiani. The work, consisting of 20 books with over 1785 chapters, contains detailed rules and instructions for clerics and laypeople, and collected, sorted, and standardized the transmitted ecclesiastical law in a pioneering manner. More than 80 manuscripts and fragments bear witness to the wide distribution and reception of the work in Western and Central Europe. Thus, the Decretum presents two challenges to modern editorial practices: It is a work of considerable size and also has a very extensive manuscript tradition. The desideratum of a critical edition is to be met by the project "Burchard's Decree Digital - Working Platform for Textual Exploration and the Impact History of Early and High Medieval Legal Cultures" of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz: The primary goal of the project is a critical edition, which is to be printed initially within the framework of the MGH (Monumenta Germaniae Historica) and published as a digital edition in ongoing work. The focus is on manuscripts that were created during Burchard's lifetime and presumably under his supervision in Worms. Comprehensive studies on the reception of the work and its influence on medieval, but also modern, ecclesiastical law, as well as a catalog of manuscripts, digitally set up as a database, complement the editorial work. For this purpose, among other things, the transcriptions of individual books of the Decretum, marked up using TEI/XML, are made digitally available. INCIPIVNT CAPITVLA LIBRI SEXTI INCIPIT LIBER SEXTVS