part iv • intellectual legal history • søren koch Compilation as a technique to produce legal text was not limited to treatises on natural law. Elements of compilation can also be spotted in the early ‘judicial collegiums’, as legal compendia were called. These compendia contained legal knowledge and were unofficial parts of the mandatory curriculum for law students. Based on lectures given in Latin at university of Copenhagen, transcribed, translated, and published by students (often theologians paid by law students who lacked the necessary Latin), these compendia compiled texts and text fragments in new formats, and thus equated to compilations in the operationalized definition presented earlier. As they were full of misunderstandings and lacunae, lecturers took to publishing their own compendia, yet even after that point their manuscripts were often copied and reissued by others. One example was Stats-Raad Hoyers Juridiske Collegium, originally produced by Anders Højer’s assistant in 1737, revised and republished by Hans Hagerup in 1742, and again by Christian Ditlev Hedegaard in 1764.72 Hedegaard in his version referred to the manuscript produced by Højer’s assistant when the lectures were given, complaining that at least ten other copies of this original manuscript were circulating, all differing considerably from the original, and supplemented with misleading notes and annotations. Hedegaard attributed many of the mistakes in the first edition not to Højer himself, but to the collectors, transcribers, editors, or compositors, or all of them.73 Another interesting reason Hedegaard gave for reissuing Højer’s compendium was the increasing demand for textbooks on legal procedure in Denmark and Norway.74 Hedegaard therefore deliberately removed Højer’s references to foreign procedures, because these comparative remarks would confuse Danish and Norwegian 72 Anders Højer, ‘Stats-Raad Hoyers Juridiske Collegium saavidt den Dansk og Norske Proces vedkommer’ (manuscript) (Copenhagen, 1737); Hans Hagerup, Stats-Raad Hoyers Juridiske Collegium saavidt den Dansk og Norske Proces vedkommer (Copenhagen, 1742); Christian DitlevHedegaard, Salige Stats-Raad Hoyers Juridiske Collegium saavidt den Dansk og Norske Proces vedkommer (Copenhagen, 1764). 73 Hedegaard 1764, foreword: ‘kan ei andet end være overtydet om, at foromtalte Feil ei bør skrives paa hans [Hojer’s] Regning, men alene tilregnes, enten Samlerne, Afskriverne, Udgiveren eller Trykken, eller alle tillige.’ 74 Hedegaard 1764, foreword: ‘En annen Aarsag er, at det forrige Opslag, især nu paa nogen Tid, haver stiget i Priisen, og endda ei kundet faaes, af alle som have villet.’ 216
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