Pal. lat. 220 is a manuscript whose particular value lies in its subsequent use and its additional texts. The main text was written in an insular scriptorium on the Upper Rhine around 800. The codex then came to Lorsch, where numerous hands wrote pen samples and notes on the wide margins of the manuscript. How these can be dated or localised and which texts were copied will be discussed, as well as the specific characteristics and dating of the hand of the famous bee blessing, which appears in further Latin marginalia. In the 10th and 11th centuries, the codex was not in the library for secondary use, but in the scriptorium of Lorsch Abbey.
Prof. Dr. Tino Licht teaches and researches at the Department of Medieval and Modern Latin Philology at the Department of History at Heidelberg University. He studied history, German studies, medieval and modern Latin and was a research assistant at the Department of Medieval Latin in Heidelberg from 2001 to 2008. He completed his doctorate in 2004 with research on the biographical work of Sigebert of Gembloux. From 2006 to 2022, he held teaching positions in Erlangen, Leipzig, Marburg and Paris and has been in charge of the Department of Medieval and Modern Latin in Heidelberg since the winter semester of 2008/09. He completed his habilitation in 2013 and was appointed associate professor in 2019. From 2015-2024, he was a sub-project leader at the SFB 933 ‘Material Text Cultures’ in Heidelberg, edited the critical edition of Walahfrid Strabo's De imagine Tetrici in 2020 and edited the third edition of Walahfrid's De cultura hortorum at Heidelberg Mattes Verlag in 2023. His research focuses on the literature and written culture of the Early and High Middle Ages.