LIBERIA - Enciclopedia Cattolica, Vol. VII, p. 760

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

LIBERIA. — A view of Monrovia, *L. old and new*, London 1928; C. M. Wilson, *L. New York 1947*. Giuseppe Caraci

Earlier editions prior to Sickel: Chr. God. Hoffmann, *Nova scriptorum... collectio* (II, Leipzig 1733); Jo. Dan. Schoepflinius, in *Commentationes historicae et criticae* (Basel 1741); P. G. Riegger, *L. D... edited by the work and study of I. Garnerius... reprinted* (Vienna 1762; PL 105); E. de Rozière, *L. D. ou Recueil des Formules usitées par la Chancellerie pontificale du Ve au XIe siècle* (Paris 1869). Critical edition based on cod. V, then the only one: Th. ab. Sickel, *L.D.R.P. ex unico codice Vaticano* (Vienna 1889). The cod. A reproduced in full facsimile in: L. G. Gramatica and G. Galbiati, *Il codice Ambrosiano del L. D.* (Milan 1921); a new critical edition of the text prepared by A. Ratti remained unfinished.

BIBL.: for a complete survey of studies up to 1930, cf. the thorough treatment by H. Leclercq, s. V. in DACL, IX, 1, cols. 243-344; on new studies published between 1936 and 1939, see the clear summary by L. Santifaller, *Zur L.-D.-Fortschritt in Historische Zeitschrift*, 161 (1940), pp. 532-538; to these should be added: L. Santifaller, *Zur äusseren Geschichte der vatikanischen Handschrift des L. D., in Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der Akad. der Wissenschaften in Wien*, 17 (1946), pp. 172-212; J. Huyben, *Ein verloren gegangenes Handschrift von den L.D.R.P.*, in *Miscellanea historica in honorem Alberti de Meyer*, Louvain-Brussels 1946, pp. 255-65; L. Santifaller, *Theodor von Sickel. Römische Erinnerungen*, Vienna 1947, pp. 169-174.