A fifteenth-century manuscript was reunited with the Bibliotheca Palatina after researchers identified it as part of the Renaissance-era collection once held in Heidelberg. The codex had been acquired by Heidelberg University Library from an antiquarian bookseller in 1937 and remained in manuscript holdings without its origins being recognized. The identification connected the codex to the Bibliotheca Palatina, a major scholarly library assembled in Heidelberg. During the Thirty Years’ War, much of the collection was seized in 1623 and transported to the Vatican. The manuscript was likely written in Constance and Basel for Johannes Zeller, who served in dioceses and prince-bishoprics. Its contents reflect Zeller’s advisory role and include politically significant legal and constitutional texts, such as Lupold of Bebenburg’s Tractatus de iuribus regni et imperii Romanorum.
"Among the works included is the Tractatus de iuribus regni et imperii Romanorum by the fourteenth-century legal scholar Lupold of Bebenburg. Written during the conflict between the Holy Roman Emperor and the papacy, the treatise argues that an elected Roman king possessed full authority over the kingdom and empire even without papal approval. The codex also contains several other politically and constitutionally significant texts."
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